On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 09:40 +1300, Steve Shipway wrote: > > I am looking to set up MRTG to check thresholds for certain server > > switch ports and also for WAN link. Is there an easy way to do this > > with routers2 and MRTG?? My concern is that once I updated the .cfg > > files, everytime I run cfgmaker that it will over-write my Thresh* > > configs.
> If your thresholds are percentages of bandwidth then you can define > them with a global default [_] in the included file, which will work. > If, however, you want to set them explicitly for each Target, you'll > need to put them into a separate .conf file and then again use > Include: to include it, and put this directive in a --global you pass > to cfgmaker to prevent overwriting. This hack will work with MRTG but > Routers2 will probably not detect the threshold values (as they are in > a separate file) and so not display them. Or, you can write a template to generate your threshold values. Templates are just perl scripts, so you can get information to populate your config using anything that perl can do - maybe you want to grep the old config file and duplicate those lines? Or a database dip, or calculate the 95% percentile for the past year and alert when you exceed it, or .... -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX www.austinenergy.com
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