[rtg] Traffic is wrapping

[Brian T. O'Neill]

I have write access, and am working on it. I'm in the middle of
switching jobs and moving from Minneapolis to Charlotte, so things 
are a bit slow right now. But, stuff will continue and get updated.

Brian


Quoting Shaun (mailinglists at unix-scripts.com) from  :
> 0.9? has there been devel work happening again on rtg!?!?!?!  Looks like svn
> on sourceforge was written to back in jan of 2008!  I'm excited :)  Is
> somebody maintaining rtg again, who?
> 
> ~Shaun
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtg-bounces at lists.grdata.com [mailto:rtg-bounces at lists.grdata.com] On
> Behalf Of Brandon Ewing
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:09 AM
> To: rtg at lists.grdata.com
> Subject: Re: [rtg] Traffic is wrapping
> 
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:47:12AM -0700, Shaun wrote:
> > What are you using now?  I'm a little disappointed that rtg is no 
> > longer being actively maintained.  Even when I tried to get the ball 
> > back rolling with a few guys on the lists that have done devel work on 
> > the project nobody wants to take over.  One guy here had done work to 
> > 0.8 and said to have it working.  If I was good enough at C I would do 
> > it but I'm more of a perl/php guy.
> > 
> > ~Shaun
> > 
> 
> We currently use RTG 0.8 to monitor ~4000 interfaces across 200 devices,
> including a mix of FastE, GigE, and POS interfaces.  Since you're seeing OOR
> values, I think you are using 0.74 still, and do not have an intelligent OOR
> value in your rtg.conf (OOR is what RTG uses to throw out readings that
> don't make sense), and a bug in the old version of rtgtargmkr.pl is
> inserting 0s instead of calculating based on interface speed:
> 
> http://lists.grdata.com/pipermail/rtg/2004-February/000832.html
> Set an intelligent OOR value in rtg.conf, and re-run rtgtargmkr.pl / restart
> the poller, to see if the issue persists.
> 
> If you're still having problems, let us know some more about your situation,
> such as what version you're running, the contents of rtg.conf, and the entry
> from target.cfg for the GigE interface that's causing the error.
> 
> You might consider an upgrade to 0.9 CVS, as the new targetmaker is rather
> robust -- there are various notes on the mailing list on getting it to
> compile correctly.
> 
> -- 
> Brandon Ewing                                        (nicotine at warningg.com)
> 
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