On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, David Gillett wrote: > I use MRTG for the boxes I have working/usable SNMP > implementations on. > > It doesn't handle outages/crashes very well. it just > treats the last successfully retrieved data volume as > continuing until new data becomes available. > There are some boxes I need to monitor, on which SNMP > is broken or unavailable. > I'm not sure whether it would meet the original > poster's need, or not.
You can tell mrtg to report a 0 value instead of the last value. As well, you don't have to use snmp either. Target[target]: `head --lines=8 /file | tail --lines=4` is a perfectly valid method for mrtg to use. As long as your output returns four values, you are all set. Mike
