Dan, Make sure that the user running MRTG has read write permission to you Thres directory and that the directives are set up in mrtg.cfg correctly.
Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Shipway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Dan Wozniak'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 8:53 AM Subject: [mrtg] Re: threshold alert every 2 hour, not every 5 minutes > >If the T1 maxes out for 30 minutes, I'd receive 6 email messages > >notifying me of the threshold break. This is unreasonable. I want to > >receive 1 email message only if the T1 maxes out for 2 hours > >straight. Does anyone have any ideas on how I would go about > >doing this? Thanks in advance. > > Don't use MRTG for alerting; the Alert functionality in MRTG is very basic. > MRTG is designed for logging (making graphs) and the alerting is a later > bolt-on. Instead, install something like Nagios (this is what we use) and > then query the stats either independently or using the Nagios check_mrtg > plugin. This will allow you to set up highly flexible alerting rules. > > Steve > > -- > Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/mrtg > FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org > WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi > > -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
