On 11/25/2011 07:36 PM, Steve Shipway wrote: >> I installed mrtg-2.17.0 packaged for Fedora-15. I used cfgmaker to >> generate a working config file for one server and one client (a >> laptop) machine. Things seemed to be working correctly until I >> shutdown the laptop. > > This is correct; once the target is shut down, SNMP polls will fail. > This will cause MRTG to complain as it cannot get a response from the > target. > >> 2011-11-21 17:30:01: WARNING: Could not match >> host:'public@haru:::::2' ref:'Ip' key:'10.1.65.65' > > This is MRTG saying it cannot work out which interface corresponds to > this IP; unsurprisingly, since the host in question is down.
Ah, OK. The message looked a little "internal" so I was wondering if I had stimulated some bug by virtue of my mrtg configuration inexperience. I understand now that that was not the case and mrtg is working as intended. >> How do I tell mrtg to ignore a machine that is unavailable? > > You cannot; MRTG is intended to monitor things that are always there > rather than things that come and go. If you need to ignore error > messages of this type, just discard the logs. I assume you have the > system set to email you any failure logs? Just stop doing this. OK. Thanks for the very informative reply. _______________________________________________ mrtg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg
