[rtg] RTG Bug Fixes

[Matt Simerson]

I think there's a few more people using it in production than is  
estimated. Many of them just aren't subscribed to this list. It's  
installed, it works, and they don't give it much thought or attention.

That was certainly the case when I arrived at Layered Tech. I rewrote  
the scripts they used for managing RTG (specifically the target maker  
and reporting scripts). I know that at least one of their upstreams  
(Savvis) uses RTG for billing, as does a company they purchased. My  
current employer (Spry) also uses RTG. We don't use it for bandwidth,  
but as a sanity check to validate how accurate our NetFlow data is. Or  
more precisely, so we know exactly how much billing revenue we don't  
collect because of NetFlow limitations.

Matt


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On Oct 8, 2008, at 8:47 PM, Bryan Wann wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Jeff Bacon wrote:
>
>> Not really. I have a feeling there are a lot of us who are sorta just
>> poking at it here and there and keeping it going for what we need/ 
>> use it
>> for, but that's about it. And not everything seems to work for  
>> everyone;
>> for instance, I'm still using 0.7.4 rtgplot against the 0.9 poller/db
>> because the 0.9 rtgplot goes into la-la-land when compiled and run on
>> sol10/sparc/gcc[234]. I'm sure I could figure it out but it's just  
>> not
>> worth the time and effort.
>>
>> It would be interesting to aggregate all of the various mods/ 
>> changes we
>> have individually done just to see what is out there, though.
>
> I pretty much gave up on trying to keep RTG running. For the past  
> 4-5 months I've been using the JRTG (http://jrtg.sourceforge.net/)  
> poller. As previously discussed, the code is pretty far removed from  
> rtgpoll but just similar enough to make it an easy drop in  
> replacement.  Apparently I'm the only one publically admitting I use  
> it in production. It works beautifully keeping up with 122,000+  
> targets under 80 seconds, and the majority of those are slow MSFC- 
> less sup1/sup2 6513s scattered all over the globe.
>
> I use btoneill's targetmaker every day.  There seems to be a couple  
> of bugs, like it forgets targets after using --update and no  
> snmpbulkwalk?! I haven't had a chance to sit down and make it better  
> yet, but it's quickly getting to the top of my list.  Once I figure  
> out a replacement to rtgplot, there won't be much of the original  
> RTG distribution left that I actually use.
>
>
> Met vriendelijke groet/kind regards,
> bryan
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