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Re: [TCLUG:6201] MRTG and lots of hosts





Yaron wrote:

>   Hi,
>
> On Fri, 28 May 1999, Bob Tanner wrote:
>
> > Anyone running MRTG against a lot of hosts?

... snip ...

> What I ended up doing was split it up into several configs and running
> them at different minutes (0,5,15,20 / 1,6,21,26 etc). Also, I found that
> running mrtg every 10 minutes was good enough for some of the hosts. Then
> again, I wasn't just monitoring routers (I had routers, interfaces no
> routers and a HELL of a lot 'check how much bandwidth this website's
> eating up's).
>
> -Yaron

 Sounds very familiar. I'm running MRTG at a client site against about 100 router
interfaces, many of them across l-o-n-g WAN links. I split them into three sets of

about 30 interfaces each, then run them staggered with cron. I also set the update

interval to 10 minutes and run another script to ftp the .html and .gif files to a

separate HTTP server every ten minutes. Not bad for a 'discarded' 486 running
Slackware 3.6 on 24MB of RAM...

 Steve Horejsi
shorejsi@skypoint.com