[mrtg] Can not determine ifNumber and duplicate entries of IP-Ifindex at the .ok files

[Steve Shipway]

Marinos said:
> Yes, I have deleted several times the .ok files, in the next run mrtg
> creates them again but after a while the errors start again and the .ok
> files contain the duplicate entries.

This is odd; are these devices in some way dynamic, reconfiguring on a regular basic?  You might need to use a different way to identify the network interfaces if IP address is not resulting in meaningful data.  Also, try using SNMPv2 and see if this gives a better result (have a :2 on the end of the Target definition where you currently have a :1)

There is no official way to tell MRTG to NOT cache the interface index table; so we need to find a different way to specify the interface.  If all else fails you can use the interface number although this might produce invalid graphs if the device is reconfiguring numbers at a regular time.

An unsupported hack that might work is to change the .ok file ownership to root, and set permissions to 0 (no read permission for anyone) and then empty the file -- this SHOULD mean that MRTG is forced to re-query the interface details every pass, but cannot write to the .ok file to cache them.  However it may also result in a few error messages :(, and it will of course not work if you are running MRTG as root (but you're not doing that, are you? :)

Steve


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