Re: [c-nsp] Advanced use of mrtg

2015-10-27 Thread Guy Lowe
On 2015-10-23 02:19, Mike - st257 wrote: > In terms of active trend graphing projects, it's largely Cacti or "native" > rrdtool. > Unless I'm missing another project at which case I hope somebody will > mention it. Observium ( http://www.observium.org/ ) / LibreNMS ( http://www.librenms.org/ ) make

Re: [c-nsp] Advanced use of mrtg

2015-10-22 Thread Mike - st257
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Mark Tinka wrote: > > > > > > The process will require 259 MiB more space. > > > 47 MiB to be downloaded. > > > # > > > > So what's the problem? You can't find 259MB of space, or don't have > > enough bandwidth to download the 47MB? > > > >

Re: [c-nsp] Advanced use of mrtg

2015-10-21 Thread Mark Tinka
On 22/Oct/15 07:04, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > It's just my old school misgivings about the dependency hell. Am I > getting old-fashioned? If you already run Gnome or something like this > on your Unix servers, then you of course don't care if a score of > extra packages are automatically install

Re: [c-nsp] Advanced use of mrtg

2015-10-21 Thread Victor Sudakov
Mark Tinka wrote: > > > > The process will require 259 MiB more space. > > 47 MiB to be downloaded. > > # > > So what's the problem? You can't find 259MB of space, or don't have > enough bandwidth to download the 47MB? > > You'll probably need more space than that to hold all your RRD files as >

Re: [c-nsp] Advanced use of mrtg

2015-10-21 Thread Mark Tinka
On 21/Oct/15 18:59, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > The process will require 259 MiB more space. > 47 MiB to be downloaded. > # So what's the problem? You can't find 259MB of space, or don't have enough bandwidth to download the 47MB? You'll probably need more space than that to hold all your RRD fi

Re: [c-nsp] Advanced use of mrtg

2015-10-21 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 21/10/2015 17:59, Victor Sudakov wrote: > No, of course from the ports/packages, but the amount of required cr*p > is amazing. And this is even after I have disabled some outrageous > dependencies (like OpenGL) in my poudriere: On the other hand, if you're using pkgng: > # pkg install -n cacti

Re: [c-nsp] Advanced use of mrtg

2015-10-21 Thread Victor Sudakov
Mark Tinka wrote: > > > Cacti has so many dependencies including PHP, MySQL, cairo, pango, > > some X libraries and what not, I really feel quite reluctant to > > install it. mrtg is tiny compared to that. > > We run Cacti on FreeBSD. > > FreeBSD takes care of all dependencies required by Cacti.

Re: [c-nsp] Advanced use of mrtg

2015-10-21 Thread Vijay S
Also cacti shouldn't be that pain to install and get it working on Ubuntu . Plus cacti has many plugins ready to use. You may face dependencies only while installing but once it is and running its really fruitful. Regards Vijay A. On Oct 21, 2015 8:39 PM, "Vijay S" wrote: > The best bet is to u

Re: [c-nsp] Advanced use of mrtg

2015-10-21 Thread Vijay S
The best bet is to use rrdtool then. You get all the flexibility what to graph and what not. Need to create few scripts like creating rrd db , update script using oid and then graph script to generate graph whenever you need it. Regards Vijay A. On Oct 21, 2015 8:28 PM, "Victor Sudakov" wrote: >

Re: [c-nsp] Advanced use of mrtg

2015-10-21 Thread Howard Jones
On 21/10/2015 15:57, Victor Sudakov wrote: Mike - st257 wrote: From what I've seen you'll find a more active community surrounding Cacti. MRTG has its niche in interface statistic graphing, I'll give it that. Cacti has so many dependencies including PHP, MySQL, cairo, pango, some X libraries a

Re: [c-nsp] Advanced use of mrtg

2015-10-21 Thread Mark Tinka
On 21/Oct/15 16:57, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Cacti has so many dependencies including PHP, MySQL, cairo, pango, > some X libraries and what not, I really feel quite reluctant to > install it. mrtg is tiny compared to that. We run Cacti on FreeBSD. FreeBSD takes care of all dependencies required

Re: [c-nsp] Advanced use of mrtg

2015-10-21 Thread Victor Sudakov
Mike - st257 wrote: > > From what I've seen you'll find a more active community surrounding Cacti. > MRTG has its niche in interface statistic graphing, I'll give it that. Cacti has so many dependencies including PHP, MySQL, cairo, pango, some X libraries and what not, I really feel quite relucta

Re: [c-nsp] Advanced use of mrtg

2015-10-20 Thread Mike - st257
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Mike - st257 wrote: > > > > > > Does anybody have an --if-template for mrtg's cfgmaker to monitor > > > interface discards and errors instead of traffic counters? > > > > > > Could you please share it? Thanks a lot in advance. > > > > > > >

Re: [c-nsp] Advanced use of mrtg

2015-10-20 Thread Victor Sudakov
Mike - st257 wrote: > > > > Does anybody have an --if-template for mrtg's cfgmaker to monitor > > interface discards and errors instead of traffic counters? > > > > Could you please share it? Thanks a lot in advance. > > > > Half of what you want (errors). > http://mrtg.gvolk.com/template/interfac

[c-nsp] Advanced use of mrtg

2015-10-20 Thread Mike - st257
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 16:01:45 +0600 > From: Victor Sudakov > To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > Subject: [c-nsp] Advanced use of mrtg > Message-ID: <20151020100145.ga42...@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Colleagues, > > D

[c-nsp] Advanced use of mrtg

2015-10-20 Thread Victor Sudakov
Colleagues, Does anybody have an --if-template for mrtg's cfgmaker to monitor interface discards and errors instead of traffic counters? Could you please share it? Thanks a lot in advance. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:suda...@sibptus.tomsk.ru __