Hi Niall,
It does sound like you have a rather complex target. I too refer to most, if
not all, of my interfaces by name with "\", but I usually convert everything to
numeric OIDs. I'll just assume those work normally elsewhere. If I understand
you correctly you want:
IN = IF3 | OUT = IF2 + IF3
I double checked the literature and have some ideas as to what went wrong.
"Target[limes.no8.be_aggregate-dn]:
ifHCInOctets.\ether3-uplink:pub...@limes.no8.be:::::2&ifHCInOctets.\ether2-uplink:pub...@limes.no8.be:::::2
+ ifHCInOctets.\ether3-uplink:pub...@limes.no8.be:::::2"
You can't use the math operation here is my first guess. It's:
IF-1-IN & IF-1-OUT +-/* MATH
It's not adding your two interfaces together for OUT, but would add it to both
IN and OUT. That's assuming that it can understand to SNMP poll your OID for
the value in the first place. Most likely it passed that to Perl directly, and
Perl understandably barfed. Turn on debugging by calling MRTG differently in
rc.d, or your cron job. Ours is custom:
daemon_flags="--user _mrtg --group _mrtg --confcache-file /etc/mrtg/mrtg.ok
--pid-file /var/run/mrtg.pid --logging /var/log/mrtg.log --debug=conf,base
/etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg"
The last part is what gets you the error output you are looking for. It will
tell you during polling, and when it attempts to graph the target. My guess is
that the math is performed during its graphing stage and not the polling stage.
I often see errors related to the math in this stage when SNMP failed or
returns null.
This sounds like a job for a custom collector, which is easier than it sounds.
Instead of defining OIDs and math, you define an external command called with
arguments:
Target[limes.no8.be_aggregate-dn]: `/usr/bin/perl
/etc/mrtg/ipv6.uplink.relative.stats limes.no8.be_aggregate-dn'
Your perl script will snmpwalk your three OIDs, perform the required
calculations, and then provide output to the MRTG script with values on
seperate lines. Your output might look like
12400341
1208581838
1:00PM up 19 days, 19:34
limes.no8.be_aggregate-dn
That's my best guess as to what you can do to make it work.
Sincerely,
Edwin A Epstein, III
Rhinobee Internet Services
707.237.7504 ext 209
707.737.0288 Mobile
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From: "Niall O'Reilly" <niall.orei...@ucd.ie>
To: mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch
Subject: [mrtg] Clue, please, for (slightly) complex target
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Hello.
I have a box with two uplinks, one configured for IPv4 only, the other
for IPv6 only.
I'ld like to show IPv6 traffic in relation to total. The current
version of my
target expression isn't what I need. I'm seeing the log file with four
zeroes in
each row, except for the expected '-1 -1' in the top one.
Because of the characteristics of the box, I have to refer to interfaces
by description
rather than by name, so I'm using the '\' prefix. This works for the
targets generated
by cfgmaker, where the OID is implicit.
My ether3-uplink is the IPv6 one, and ether2-uplink carries IPv4.
I'm trying to plot IPv6 ("IN") traffic, aggregate IPv6 + IPv4 traffic
("OUT") and the
relative percentage, with one target for inward traffic, another for
outward.
Here are the relevant fragments of my configuration file for the inward
direction.
LoadMIBs: /usr/local/share/snmp/mibs/IF-MIB.txt
Target[limes.no8.be_aggregate-dn]:
ifHCInOctets.\ether3-uplink:pub...@limes.no8.be:::::2&ifHCInOctets.\ether2-uplink:pub...@limes.no8.be:::::2
+ ifHCInOctets.\ether3-uplink:pub...@limes.no8.be:::::2
Options[limes.no8.be_aggregate-dn]: growright,bits,dorelpercent
Clue, please, anyone?
Thanks in anticipation.
Niall O'Reilly
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