[rtg] RTG Bug Fixes

Leech, Jonathan jleech at virtela.com
Thu Oct 9 11:32:03 EDT 2008


Yes. JRTG is in active development. The next release will include a few
minor bug fixes, and will integrate with RRD4J to store data in a
round-robin database.
My former colleague and I wrote it and we use it in production,
currently polling about 300,000 targets.

-Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: rtg-bounces at lists.grdata.com [mailto:rtg-bounces at lists.grdata.com]
On Behalf Of Jim Archer
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 1:08 AM
To: rtg at lists.grdata.com
Subject: Re: [rtg] RTG Bug Fixes

Interesting, I didn't know this existed.  I'll have a look,thanks for
letting us know about this.

Is this in active development?



--On Wednesday, October 08, 2008 10:47 PM -0500 Bryan Wann
<bwann-rtg at wann.net> 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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