[rtg] rtg status?

[Matt Simerson]

Or they are just running the latest version of RTG and are quite  
content with the way it works. When I was a Layered Tech, we monitored  
several thousand switch ports with it. We use it at Spry as well, but  
only as a reference. I only have a few problems with the released  
version of RTG:

    1. if the RTG poller loses the connection to the DB, it does not  
reconnect. Ever.
    2. the perl scripts for reporting sucked.
    3. databases get absolutely enormous after a few months worth of  
polling N thousand ports

The solution for 1 is easy.  The application could be fixed to test  
the DB connection and reconnect after failures, or it can worked  
around. Just write a script that checks the last time a DB insert was  
made. If it has been more than 2X polling interval, then restart the  
polling daemon.

Solving #2 required a bit more work but I published the solution here:
	http://search.cpan.org/~msimerson/RTG-Report-1.16/

#3 is also solved by the record_consolidator.pl script in the  
RTG::Report dist.

Of course, other people have had different problems with RTG and  
developed their own solutions. But you might want to just give the  
stock RTG a whirl. It may just do everything you need as is.

Matt


On Jan 7, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> People are running their own hacked up versiosn of RTG, and noone's
> really stepped up to create an RTG fork to include all the various
> patches, stuff from the Y!rtg, etc.
>
> Anyone up to the challenge? :)
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009, Jeremy Guarini wrote:
>> been using version 7 myself as I didn't see anything firm for  
>> version 8 or 9
>>
>> --Jeremy
>>
>> Quoting John Center <john.center at villanova.edu>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> What is the status of this project?  We've been using an older
>>> version of rtg.  I saw a discussion about various patches floating
>>> around, but it doesn't look like there has been any further
>>> development.  Could someone please update the list?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> 	-John
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> John Center
>>> Villanova University
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