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Re: Enhancing automation with network growth
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:13:19 -0600
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 09:54:50PM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote:
Hi all, I'm reaching the point where adding in a new piece of infrastructure hardware, connecting up a new cable, and/or assigning address space to a client is nearly 50% documentation and 50% technical. One thing that would take a major load off would be if my MRTG system could simply update its config/index files for itself, instead of me having to do it on each and every port change.
It is really quite trivial to auto-discover ifindex->ifdescr mappings on every poll cycle then track your interfaces by their names, pretty much every modern poller system can manage this. MRTG is absurdly old, slow, and generally nasty, and should not be used by anyone in this day and age. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
Current thread:
- Enhancing automation with network growth Steve Bertrand (Jan 20)
- RE: Enhancing automation with network growth Erik L (Jan 20)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Matthew Palmer (Jan 21)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Larry Sheldon (Jan 21)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Matthew Palmer (Jan 21)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Chris Adams (Jan 20)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jan 20)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Richard A Steenbergen (Jan 20)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Dan White (Jan 20)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Tom Wright (Jan 21)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Steve Bertrand (Jan 25)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Andy Davidson (Jan 26)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Steve Bertrand (Jan 26)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: RE: Enhancing automation with network growth Kevin St John (Jan 21)
- RE: Enhancing automation with network growth Erik L (Jan 20)