[Xymon] Network Traffic Graph - Fedora 15

[Sam L]

Also, if this changed in Fedora now, then it means it is probably coming for Red Hat Enterprise Linux soon.  And I assume this issue would hit more people then.

From: s0a4m at hotmail.com
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: [Xymon] Network Traffic Graph - Fedora 15
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:29:21 -0400








Yes, I am aware Fedora changed the naming convention.  My question is: How can I get the xymon network traffic graph (in trends) to work again?  The only network traffic graph I have still only has eth0 in it (from old data before the Fedora upgrade.)  I could probably force the name back to eth0 in the OS, but that seems like a cheesy workaround, since this is how the naming is going to be going forward.  How can I get xymon to become aware that my NIC is called p33p1?

Thanks for any guidance.


> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:19:11 +0800
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Network Traffic Graph - Fedora 15
> From: colin.coe at gmail.com
> To: everett.vernon at gmail.com
> CC: s0a4m at hotmail.com; xymon at xymon.com
> 
> Vernon is correct.  Fedora 15 moves away from eth[0-9], at least in
> some circumstances.  See
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming
> 
> CC
> 
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Vernon Everett
> <everett.vernon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Sam
> >
> > I recall about 7 years ago, give or take, when Sun released the new
> > T2000 line of servers, NICs changed from being eri0, hme0, qfe1and
> > similar to being e1000g0, e1000g1.....
> > You could grab the old NICs by using a regex. They were all of the
> > form aaaX (a=Alpha, X=Numeric)
> > "^[a-z][a-z][a-z][0-9]" or something like that.
> > It all happened inside the C code, so I plead ignorance of the details.
> >
> > The new NIC IDs no longer fitted the regex, and it broke Hobbit. (Yes,
> > it was called Hobbit back then)
> > Henrik was pretty quick off the mark though, and sorted me out with a
> > patch within a day or three.
> > (I am guessing he wasn't so busy back then)
> >
> > It is possible that you have encountered something similar.
> > Henrik? Could it be?
> >
> > I would go to your sysadmin guys and get them to stop playing
> > silly-buggers with the NIC naming conventions.
> > If they refuse to be reasonable, you might have to petition Henrik for a fix.
> > I still owe Henrik a beer for that T2000 fix. :-)
> >
> > Regards
> >     Vernon
> >
> >
> > On 13 July 2011 10:36, Sam L <s0a4m at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hey, I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas about this?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: s0a4m at hotmail.com
> >> To: xymon at xymon.com
> >> Subject: Network Traffic Graph - Fedora 15
> >> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 14:39:34 -0400
> >>
> >> I've been running xymon 4.3.3 on Fedora 14 for a month or two without any
> >> issues.  I recently upgraded to Fedora 15 and now my "Network Traffic" graph
> >> in trends is no longer working.  They changed up something with network card
> >> naming in Fedora 15, and my NIC is no longer called eth0 (or
> >> eth<anything>).  The interface is now called p33p1.  Should xymon be able to
> >> figure that out on it's own or do I need to tell it to look for more than
> >> ethX?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >> s0a4m
> >>
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