MRTG

[Libor Pechacek]

news wrote:
> i need some help with MRTG.
...
> one of our cisco-7200 that has E1 controlers - every controler has 30 time
...
> router boot up the snmp MIB for the interfaces is diffrent !!!

Maybe following could help you...

From: André Pirard <pirard na vm1.ulg.ac.be>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Date: July 31 1998 18:36
Subject: Re: having mrtg use interface descriptors


>nomail na pe1chl.demon.nl (Rob Janssen) wrote:
>
>>In <35c08ecc.12311563 na nntp.ulg.ac.be> A.Pirard na ulg.ac.be (André Pirard)
writes:
>>
>>>Delian Delchev <ciscou na lists.nat.bg> wrote:
>>
>>>>Use mrtg, it's work fine, but have very much errors, especially with
>>>>cisco, because cisco changes snmp index numbers of interfaces at every
>>>>reconfiguration...
>>
>>>I have written a patch to mrtg to have it use interface descriptors
>>>instead of indexes. It's an ugly hack but I still wonder how people
>>>can live without that. I've just had to cope with the conflict of / in
>>>7000 style interface names with mrtg use of / for expressions, and I
>>>bluntly took / out of being an arithmetic operator.
>>>I'm willing to post a context diff in here if there's enough interest.
>>
>>That would be nice.  Or even better: post a site where you make it
>>available for FTP or WWW access.
>>(I have this problem as well.  Actually this nuisance does not affect
>>only MRTG but also many other SNMP monitoring packages)
>
>Done. See http://www.ulg.ac.be/~pirard/Cisco/mrtg_descriptors.htm
>Tell me if this patch still works with recent mrtg versions.
>
>Enjoy!

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Libor Pechacek <farco na clnet.cz>                    
CLNet network administrator