Re: [cricket-users] rough day trying to set up rrdtool/cricket

From: Daniel Spisak (dspisak@mminternet.com)
Date: Wed Jul 21 1999 - 10:00:46 PDT


From: "Daniel Spisak" <dspisak@mminternet.com>

Rob,

    Go into the Defaults file in the sub-directory you are working on and
look for this line:

        domain = ""

You *must* put your domain name in there or collector doesn't look at the
right address.

Daniel E. Spisak
Senior Network Administrator
MM Internet
http://www.mminternet.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Windsor <windsor@adc.com>
To: <rrd-users@list.ee.ethz.ch>
Cc: <cricket-users@onelist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 9:31 AM
Subject: [cricket-users] rough day trying to set up rrdtool/cricket

> From: Rob Windsor <windsor@adc.com>
>
> [I apologize for hitting both lists, but I'm not exactly sure which tool
does
> the snmp chatter. -- Rob ]
>
> Heyyo,
>
> After fighting perl modules, BerkeleyDB, and the lack of caffeine all day
> yesterday, I still haven't gotten rrdtool/cricket to behave.
>
> Configuration info:
> Solaris 2.6/sparc
> perl 5.004001 (upgrading to 5.004_004 would take some effort since
> perl is deeply rooted in our environment)
> latest required perl modules as of yesterday
> I was following the steps in cricket's doc/beginner.txt...
>
> First up, I have to put the FQDN in the config file. This is more
annoying
> than 'broken', but I'd rather not have to do that.
>
> Secondly, where can I hardcode the 'home directory' for cricket so that I
> don't have to create a new user? I'm currently running mrtg as myself and
I
> really don't want to create *yet* *another* application-specific account
on
> our systems. (My temporary fix is by doing "HOME=/foo ../compile") This
is
> probably a simple thing to chase down, but I haven't had a chance to do it
yet
> and figured that I would ask while I'm here.
>
> Thirdly (and most importantly), I get the following, regardless of whether
I
> point it at a solaris box (yeah, I know Solaris 2.6 smpdx is less than
> optimum) or either of our two NetApps:
>
> [20-Jul-1999 17:55:18*] Received SNMP response with error code noSuchName
> [20-Jul-1999 17:55:18 ] Got:
> [20-Jul-1999 17:55:18 ] Retrieved data for na1.bbg.adc.com (): U,U,U,U
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> obtw, 'hi' to fellow former-Synopsys-ites.
>
> -- Rob
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