From: Jeff Allen <jra@corp.webtv.net>
Berg, Ivan wrote:
> Anyone used cricket to gather rmon and rmon2 statistics.
We do not use RMON here.
> It would seem using rmon2 history would be a better choice for network
> management, I could tell the device to gather statistics, then pull them off
> every night rather than every 5 minutes.
If you are using RMON to calculate time-interval averages, then yes,
pulling off the data once a day could save on monitoring bandwidth. If
you are pulling down all the samples that are stored in the RMON table
in bulk, you are going to be fetching the same amount of information
Cricket would have fetched during the day, plus you will have these
drawbacks:
a. SNMP is not good at moving bulk data, since it's a
UDP-based protocol without it's own congestion avoidance.
b. your data will arrive too late to make realtime graphs.
So, IF you REALLY want to fetch 5-minute data at the end of the day in
bulk using RMON, then there are ways to do it with Cricket. I'm not
going to into them, though, since I think you should be using Cricket
for realtime graphs, not day-old ones.
If you are actually retrieving averages with RMON and want to put
those in Cricket, I have not really thought through the issues and
can't help much. Maybe someone else on the list can help...
> 1. Is it possible to add a short-desc to a directory.
Yes. Search for "directory-desc" in the reference.html file. Sorry
it's not integrated into short-desc. I don't remember why I had to do
it that way.
> 2. Anyone have mtargets work? I get ARRAY error in apache web server error
> log. Grapher.cgi has a problem with something. I have set up like I said in
> previous email.
Well, it works for us, or I wouldn't have shipped it. But it may be
that you are using it in a way that breaks it. Could you send more
details to the list? Thanks.
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