Re: [hobbit] Best way to do interface graphs?

["Stewart L" <stewartl42 (at) gmail.com>]

Any chance folks have done templates for Fortinet Firewalls?  I'm sure I can
whip them out if not.  I'm already doing custom graphs via ncv for cpu,
memory, sessions, etc.   I was planning on releasing my custom script to the
shire next week.

Stew


On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Buchan Milne <bgmilne (at) staff.telkomsa.net>
wrote:

> On Thursday 17 April 2008 21:37:21 Stewart L wrote:
> > so, I have a number of routers and switches.  I want to graph interface
> > utilization and errors for them.
> >
> > What is the best way to do that?
>
> I am graphing all the interfaces on our 6 Cisco 6500 switches (another 2
> by
> next week), 2 7600s, a 7200 router, and 4 PIX firewall pairs (6 other
> pairs
> need IOS upgrades before they will have any interface data to graph) with
> devmon, using the devmon rrd collector module shipped as a patch in the
> 0.3.0. final release.
>
> $ ls /var/lib/hobbit/rrd/*/if_load*.rrd|wc -l
> 1487
>
> I am not currently graphing errors, but it should be relatively easy. Add
> the
> rrd option to the table in the message file for the test,
> add  'if_err=devmon' to TEST2RRD (you should kill the hobbitd_rrd to get
> it
> to restart with this environment variable updated), and create a graph
> configuration for if_err (would be relatively similar to the one for
> if_load
> shipped in extras/devmon-graph.cfg).
>
> I am actually more interested in adding graphs for discards on the
> firewall
> templates (as our internet-facing firewall has quite a high discard rate).
>
> I have some other changes to make to the templates, so if error and
> discard
> graphs are of interest to others, I can probably get a new template
> release
> out pretty soon.
>
> Regards,
> Buchan
>



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Stewart

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