[hobbit] Hobbit & MRTG - has anyone seen this?

[Al Payne]

Column name is defined by the bb*svc and bb*altsvc tags in your MRTG
configuration file.

The purple is more concerning. If MRTG is in fact updating, then there's
a good chance the script is not looking at the right logs.

Maschino, Shawn (GE Advanced Materials) wrote:

> Hi all, I’m using Hobbit with MRTG and have it set up with the
> bb-mrtg.pl script. It is looking quite nice, the network admins love
> it, but today on the non-green view page I had a server pop up with a
> column for “traffic” being purple, and when clicking on it it brings
> me some switch details being populated in via MRTG.
>
> That was a bit surprising, I hadn’t seen a “traffic” column anywhere
> else, and my first guess was that the IP for the server and switch may
> have been accidentally entered as the same, but they weren’t. The
> switch is also reporting in via MRTG, the data is updating every 5
> minutes even though it is showing as purple. I’m about at the end of
> my troubleshooting thought process, has anyone seen something like
> this before?
>
> Thanks,
>
> **Shawn Maschino **
> Technical Services - Server Operations
> GE Plastics
> shawn.maschino at ge.com
>