That is fine, but in that 20 seconds a Second instance of MRTG is hitting it and failing. So does it matter if it disappears in 20 second or not. It's failing and that is the bottom line.
Ask yourself this Why do you need to poll every minute? Do I really want all this SNMP traffic on my network? Am I anywhere near maxing out the Bandwidth that I have to check every circuit every minute? Is someone actually watching these graphs every minute (since they update every 5 minutes I'd have to wonder why if you say yes to this)? If you can honestly answer those questions in a positive manner then by all means poll it at one minute intervals. If you can't back it off give the lock files a chance to go away. Fault Management systems like HP's Network Node Manager, or Tivoli's Netview don't poll devices every minute and they are looking for devices that have failed. Regards, Pete ---- Peter P. Benac, CCNA Celtic Spirit Network Solutions Providing Network and Systems Project Management and Installation and Web Hosting. Phone: 919-618-2557 Web: http://www.emacolet.com Need quick reliable Systems or Network Management advice visit http://www.nmsusers.org To have principles... First have courage.. With principles comes integrity!!! -----Original Message----- From: Mark Priest [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:49 To: Peter P. Benac; 'Mrtg' Subject: Re: [mrtg] Re: Cron Service I was sitting here watching and it looks like the lockfile only appears for about 20 seconds and then goes away -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
