[mrtg] cisco switches, etherchannel, and artificially lowgraph values?

[McDonald, Dan]

On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 10:47 -0400, Kettler, Matt wrote:
> I’ve got an odd problem with my interface graphs never reaching their
> proper peak.. They all seem to be scaled down inappropriately.
> 
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> 
> For starters, I’ve pointed cfgmaker at a variety of ordinary Cisco
> switches.  I’ll be using examples from a Cisco 4948 running
> 12.2(20r)EW1, but I’ve seen the same affects on 3750’s 12.2(25r)SE1.

Both of those are pretty old versions of code.  The 3750 tree, in
particular, has been riddled with snmp bugs.

> 
> I’ve got MRTG running in daemon mode at 5 minute intervals.
> 
>  
> 
> When I run cfgmaker, I use this basic form:
> 
>  
> 
> cfgmaker --global 'WorkDir: /var/mrtg/work' --global
> 'Options[_]:bits,growright' --global 'WithPeak[_]: wmy' --no-down
> --show-op-down --output  switchname.cfg community at switchname
> 

You need to specify snmp version 2.  Otherwise, your gigabit and gig
etherchannel interface counters will roll over more than twice in a 5
minute period, and you will get about 170mb/s.

cfgmaker --global 'WorkDir: /var/mrtg/work' --global
'Options[_]:bits,growright' --global 'WithPeak[_]: wmy' --no-down
--show-op-down --output  switchname.cfg community at switchname:::::2



-- 
Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX
Austin Energy
http://www.austinenergy.com

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