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Date:      Mon, 25 Sep 2000 00:51:40 -0500 (CDT)
From:      BWS - Offwhite <brennan@offwhite.net>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: snmp with mrtg for monitoring
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009250050370.11758-100000@home.offwhite.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000924215649.A4730@dan.emsphone.com>

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Thanks, I think I have it working much better now.  I did not relize the
float values were a problem.  That article did not offer any warning about
that.

What does that gauge option do?

Thanks for the help so far.

Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin
projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com

On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Sep 24), BWS - Offwhite said:
> > I am just learning how to use SNMP to monitor various aspects of my
> > servers and then creating useful graphs with mrtg.  I am reading material
> > here to learn how to do it.
> > 
> > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/09/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html
> > 
> > # cpu load
> > Target[load]:.1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.10.1.3.1&.1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.10.1.3.2:HOME@localhost
> 
> Try .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.10.1.5.1 instead. 1.3.1 is a float, and since
> mrtg just graphs integers, you'll only be able to graph the number 0
> and 1.  1.5.1 is the loadavg * 100, so you'll go from 0..100 most of
> the time.
>  
> > # swap
> > Target[swap]:.1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.3.0&.1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.4.0:HOME@localhost
> 
> This should be fine.  Make sure that you set Options[load]=gauge (same
> for swap).
>  
> > These both have a value for MaxBytes of 12500000.  I probably should
> > change this, but the article from oreillynet.com does not give a
> > specific recommondation for this.  The article seems to cut our a bit
> > early leaving me to do a great deal of guesswork.
> 
> I'd set MaxBytes[load] at 100, but AbsMax at an outrageous number
> (100000 or whatever).  That way you'll get numbers >100% when your
> loadavg goes above 1.00.  Set MaxBytes[swap] at whatever your swap size
> is.
> 
> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson@emsphone.com
> 
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