[rtg] Fwd: RTG Bug Fixes

[Matt Simerson]

Unfortunately, my emails to the list are not going through. Can  
someone please forward this message to the list and let folks know  
this exists:

http://search.cpan.org/~msimerson/RTG-Report-1.16/

Someone is bound to find it useful.

Matt

> 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
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~msimerson/RTG-Report-1.15/
>
> Matt
>
>
> 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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