On 13 Sep 2009, at 20:23, Mattogno, Christopher wrote:

>> Everything seemed to go smoothly with the update, but since Friday,  
>> MRTG just takes over my system. Memory utilization has skyrocketed,  
>> and I'm getting false alerts because of this. Suddenly OPSView  
>> cannot communicate to routers/switches/servers, but I can telnet/ssh  
>> to them. The OPSView web server becomes unresponsive, and when it  
>> does respond it is error prone:Error retrieving update from Opsview.  
>> Will continue to retry.
>>
>> Eventually I do get a display, and it is lit up like a Christmas  
>> tree ... very unnerving. I have disabled all alerting because of the  
>> false positives.
>>
>> The server is Ubuntu Hardy, 2 Gig RAM, 80 GB mirrored HD. 146 Hosts,  
>> 1111 services.
>>

> What is your version of MRTG?
>
> We made a change where MRTG connects to your device based on whether  
> you use SNMPv2c or SNMPv1 (it always defaulted to SNMPv1 before). My  
> guess is that this is hanging (maybe firewall?) and so each 5 minute  
> MRTG process is staying around.
> 
> Ton


The installed version of MRTG is 2.14.7-2ubuntu3. Almost all the devices are on 
the inside of the firewall, along with the OPSView server.

In the opinion of the hive, should I be looking to update the server to Jaunty 
sooner rather than later?

'topher
On 13 Sep 2009, at 20:23, Mattogno, Christopher wrote:

>> Everything seemed to go smoothly with the update, but since Friday,  
>> MRTG just takes over my system. Memory utilization has skyrocketed,  
>> and I'm getting false alerts because of this. Suddenly OPSView  
>> cannot communicate to routers/switches/servers, but I can telnet/ssh  
>> to them. The OPSView web server becomes unresponsive, and when it  
>> does respond it is error prone:Error retrieving update from Opsview.  
>> Will continue to retry.
>>
>> Eventually I do get a display, and it is lit up like a Christmas  
>> tree ... very unnerving. I have disabled all alerting because of the  
>> false positives.
>>
>> The server is Ubuntu Hardy, 2 Gig RAM, 80 GB mirrored HD. 146 Hosts,  
>> 1111 services.
>>

> What is your version of MRTG?
>
> We made a change where MRTG connects to your device based on whether  
> you use SNMPv2c or SNMPv1 (it always defaulted to SNMPv1 before). My  
> guess is that this is hanging (maybe firewall?) and so each 5 minute  
> MRTG process is staying around.
> 
> Ton


The installed version of MRTG is 2.14.7-2ubuntu3. Almost all the devices are on 
the inside of the firewall, along with the OPSView server.

In the opinion of the hive, should I be looking to update the server to Jaunty 
sooner rather than later?

'topher
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