[mrtg] FW: Monitoring Load

[Matt Baer]

I have accomplished this by using Mr. Shipway's cfgmaker template 'generic-host.htp'. That has given me the OIDs of basically everything I need for vital system resources...even for my network printer! I would highly recommend that method for anyone that doesn't know much about OIDs/SNMP/MIBs or anyone that is getting errors with SNMP strings and would like to go straight to the OIDs. 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Shipway" <s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz> 
To: "mrtg" <mrtg at lists.oetiker.ch> 
Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 4:36:09 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central 
Subject: [mrtg] FW: Monitoring Load 






Three ways to do the same thing, with 3 solutions! (1) is if the problem is the string conversion, (2) is for if the problem is the MIB symbolic name, and (3) is if the problem is it not being an integer. To be honest though I think (2) or possible (2)+(3) is the way to go, but I had to include (1) as it is so pretty J 



1. Your device is outputting the laLoad variable as a string rather than as an integer. You may need to set up a Conversion Code definition with the fromstring() function to convert it to a real number. 



In the cfg file, put a line: 



ConversionCode: /usr/local/mrtg/etc/conversoincode.pl 



(you might need to put a different path for your script, of course). Then, in the conversioncode.pl file, put the text: 



sub fromstring() {my $v = shift; if($v =~ /(\d+\.?\d*)/) { return $1; } else { return 0; } } 



Finally, your Target definition should add ‘|fromstring’ 



Target[server.wherever_load]: laLoad.3&laLoad.3:public at server.wherever|fromstring 



Having said all of this, though, I would have expected Perl to Do The Right Thing when confronted with a string containing just a number. I don’t see why this bit should be necessary. 



2. Another possibility is that MRTG simply doesn’t know about the symbolic laLoad name whereas snmpwalk does. In this case you’ll need ot tell MRTG about the MIB. 



LoadMIBs: /usr/share/snmp/mibs/UCD-SNMP-MIB.txt 



3. A third possibility is to try using laLoadInt instead. This is definitely a number, but multipled by 100. You need to divide it in the Target definition: 



Target[server.wherever_load]: laLoadInt.3&laLoadInt.3:public at server.wherever / 100 



Note that the spaces are significant in this definition. 





Steve 







From: mrtg-bounces at lists.oetiker.ch [mailto:mrtg-bounces at lists.oetiker.ch] On Behalf Of Matt Baer 
Sent: Monday, 28 September 2009 6:21 a.m. 
To: mrtg 
Subject: Re: [mrtg] Monitoring Load 




Direct copy and paste output of that command: 

UCD-SNMP-MIB::laIndex.1 = INTEGER: 1 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laIndex.2 = INTEGER: 2 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laIndex.3 = INTEGER: 3 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laNames.1 = STRING: Load-1 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laNames.2 = STRING: Load-5 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laNames.3 = STRING: Load-15 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laLoad.1 = STRING: 0.57 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laLoad.2 = STRING: 0.42 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laLoad.3 = STRING: 0.36 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laConfig.1 = STRING: 12.00 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laConfig.2 = STRING: 12.00 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laConfig.3 = STRING: 12.00 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laLoadInt.1 = INTEGER: 56 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laLoadInt.2 = INTEGER: 41 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laLoadInt.3 = INTEGER: 35 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laLoadFloat.1 = Opaque: Float: 0.570000 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laLoadFloat.2 = Opaque: Float: 0.420000 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laLoadFloat.3 = Opaque: Float: 0.360000 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laErrorFlag.1 = INTEGER: noError(0) 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laErrorFlag.2 = INTEGER: noError(0) 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laErrorFlag.3 = INTEGER: noError(0) 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laErrMessage.1 = STRING: 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laErrMessage.2 = STRING: 
UCD-SNMP-MIB::laErrMessage.3 = STRING: 



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