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This may not be directly Hobbit related, but...

I get the message "Time stamp in log is on the future !" on each of my
MRTG pages.  I was not getting this when running bigbrother, so I'm
wondering what would cause this or if there is something I can do to
keep that from appearing.  MRTG is working fine, just this annoying
message.

Thanks,
Michael

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:11:16AM -0500, Lowery, Michael wrote:

No idea, really.

It would have been nice to know *which* logfile holds this futuristic
timestamp. Any mention of that ? Any output from the mrtg cron-job ?


Regards,
Henrik

Bbmrtg.sh has this in it, but I don't know how to determine what it's
doing and why it's reporting the error.

        # If MRTG hasn't updated the file in $BBSLEEP seconds then
        # don't do anything as to possibly have BBDISPLAY generate a
purple
        # status at one point if MRTG doesn't update the log in 30
minutes.
                
        timenow=`$BBHOME/bin/touchtime -e`
        timediff=`echo "$lasttimestamp $timenow" | $AWK '{ print $2 - $1
}'`
                  
        if [ "$timediff" -gt 0 ]
        then
                # Do we have a stale  MRTG .log file ? No update ...
                # Will provoke a purple after a while
                if [ "$timediff" -gt "$MRTGSTALESECS" -a "$PURPLECHECK"
= 			"TRUE" ]
                then    
                        continue
                fi   
                ERRMSG=""
                
                if [ "$currin" -ge "$redlevelinmax" -o "$currout" -ge
"$redleveloutmax" ]
                then
                        COLOR="red"
                elif [ "$currin" -lt "$redlevelinmin" -o "$currout" -lt
"$redleveloutmin" ]
                then
                        COLOR="red"
                elif [ "$currin" -ge "$yellowlevelinmax" -o "$currout"
-ge 			"$yellowleveloutmax" ]
                then
                        COLOR="yellow"
                elif [ "$currin" -lt "$yellowlevelinmin" -o "$currout"
-lt 			"$yellowleveloutmin" ]
                then
                        COLOR="yellow"
   if [ "$timediff" -gt 0 ]
        then
                # Do we have a stale  MRTG .log file ? No update ...
                # Will provoke a purple after a while
                if [ "$timediff" -gt "$MRTGSTALESECS" -a "$PURPLECHECK"
= 			"TRUE" ]
                then
                        continue
                fi
                ERRMSG=""
                
                if [ "$currin" -ge "$redlevelinmax" -o "$currout" -ge
"$redleveloutmax" ]
                then
                        COLOR="red"
                elif [ "$currin" -lt "$redlevelinmin" -o "$currout" -lt
"$redleveloutmin" ]
                then    
                        COLOR="red"
                elif [ "$currin" -ge "$yellowlevelinmax" -o "$currout"
-ge 			"$yellowleveloutmax" ]
                then
                        COLOR="yellow"
                elif [ "$currin" -lt "$yellowlevelinmin" -o "$currout"
-lt 			"$yellowleveloutmin" ]
                then
                        COLOR="yellow"
                fi
        else
                ERRMSG="Time stamp in log is on the future !"
        fi
                
        rm -f $BBTMP/BBMRTG.$$

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:18 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] MRTG & Hobbit

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:11:16AM -0500, Lowery, Michael wrote:

No idea, really.

It would have been nice to know *which* logfile holds this futuristic
timestamp. Any mention of that ? Any output from the mrtg cron-job ?


Regards,
Henrik

In <user-5abdb239fc11@xymon.invalid> "Lowery, Michael" <user-89d72f0c2e3d@xymon.invalid> writes:

[snip]

       if [ "$timediff" -gt 0 ]
       then

[cut]

       else
               ERRMSG="Time stamp in log is on the future !"
       fi

I suspect this may happen if you run bbmrtg with BBHOME pointing to
the Hobbit installation - because the "touchtime" utility does not
exist. So you get "timediff" to be negative from the awk command.

If you have GNU date installed, I'd just replace that line with

        timenow=`date +%s`

and see if that resolves it.


Regards,
Henrik

Great!  Thanks for taking the time to look at that for me!

Michael

       
-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Storner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:51 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] MRTG & Hobbit

In <user-5abdb239fc11@xymon.invalid> "Lowery,
Michael" <user-89d72f0c2e3d@xymon.invalid> writes:

$1}'`
[snip]

[cut]

I suspect this may happen if you run bbmrtg with BBHOME pointing to
the Hobbit installation - because the "touchtime" utility does not
exist. So you get "timediff" to be negative from the awk command.

If you have GNU date installed, I'd just replace that line with

        timenow=`date +%s`

and see if that resolves it.


Regards,
Henrik

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:11:16AM -0500, Lowery, Michael wrote:

This is a bug in bbmrtg.pl  You can correct for it by altering the time
that bbmrtg.pl runs - delay it by one minute if possible...

You never saw this with bb, because bb launched bbmrtg.pl at fairly
random times - never syncronized at 5 minute intervals like cron...

I've got a decent patch for it somewhere, but I never got around to
applying it to 1.7  At some point I'll churn out a 1.8, but I'm in
training this week and will have a pile to catch up on when I get
back...

-- 

Dan McDonald, CCIE #2495, CNX
Austin Energy

All,

I am using the built-in mrtg hobbit functionality (i.e. not using bb-mrtg)
I used cfgmaker on my server to build my mrtg.cfg. I am running mrtg against
a cisco 6509 switch BTW.

cfgmaker generated the mrtg.cfg with all the interfaces on the switch. A
little tweaking got it generating
graphs correctly. The labels on each graph look mostly correct (i.e.
.fa0_0_0 inbound and .fa0_0_0) {the . in front of
the label name is why I say mostly correct, I don't really care much about
that} so that is all good.

Here's the question.

The fa0_0_0 is useful for my network guy, but doesn't mean anything to me.
Looking at the mrtg.cfg
I see it has in it the info that would be useful to me. Here is a snippet
(question below snippet)

Title[mrtg.Fa0_0_0]: Traffic Analysis for Fa0/0/0 -- RPCFIR1
PageTop[mrtg.Fa0_0_0]: <H1>Traffic Analysis for Fa0/0/0 -- RPCFIR1</H1>
 <TABLE>
   <TR><TD>System:</TD>     <TD>RPCFIR1 in </TD></TR>
   <TR><TD>Maintainer:</TD> <TD></TD></TR>
   <TR><TD>Description:</TD><TD>FastEthernet0/0/0 OA Link Subnet15
</TD></TR>
   <TR><TD>ifType:</TD>     <TD>ethernetCsmacd (6)</TD></TR>
   <TR><TD>ifName:</TD>     <TD>Fa0/0/0</TD></TR>
   <TR><TD>Max Speed:</TD>  <TD>12.5 MBytes/s</TD></TR>
   <TR><TD>Ip:</TD>         <TD>167.76.15.2 ()</TD></TR>
 </TABLE>

is there a way to either make the title of the graph match the title (or
description) from the snippet above (for each interface)
or just have text in the trends page do it? (i.e. Line from title above,
then show pic, then show title line for next graph, then that graph etc...)
?

Thanks,
Jeff

Anyone?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Jan 4, 2006 10:33 AM
Subject: MRTG & Hobbit

All,

I am using the built-in mrtg hobbit functionality (i.e. not using bb-mrtg)
I used cfgmaker on my server to build my mrtg.cfg. I am running mrtg against
a cisco 6509 switch BTW.

cfgmaker generated the mrtg.cfg with all the interfaces on the switch. A
little tweaking got it generating
graphs correctly. The labels on each graph look mostly correct (i.e.
.fa0_0_0 inbound and .fa0_0_0) {the . in front of
the label name is why I say mostly correct, I don't really care much about
that} so that is all good.

Here's the question.

The fa0_0_0 is useful for my network guy, but doesn't mean anything to me.
Looking at the mrtg.cfg
I see it has in it the info that would be useful to me. Here is a snippet
(question below snippet)

Title[mrtg.Fa0_0_0]: Traffic Analysis for Fa0/0/0 -- RPCFIR1
PageTop[mrtg.Fa0_0_0]: <H1>Traffic Analysis for Fa0/0/0 -- RPCFIR1</H1>
 <TABLE>
   <TR><TD>System:</TD>     <TD>RPCFIR1 in </TD></TR>
   <TR><TD>Maintainer:</TD> <TD></TD></TR>
   <TR><TD>Description:</TD><TD>FastEthernet0/0/0 OA Link Subnet15
</TD></TR>
   <TR><TD>ifType:</TD>     <TD>ethernetCsmacd (6)</TD></TR>
   <TR><TD>ifName:</TD>     <TD>Fa0/0/0</TD></TR>
   <TR><TD>Max Speed:</TD>  <TD>12.5 MBytes/s</TD></TR>

   <TR><TD>Ip:</TD>         <TD> 167.76.15.2 ()</TD></TR>

 </TABLE>

is there a way to either make the title of the graph match the title (or
description) from the snippet above (for each interface)
or just have text in the trends page do it? (i.e. Line from title above,
then show pic, then show title line for next graph, then that graph etc...)
?

Thanks,
Jeff

Hello,

New to the list, this "reply" won't show up correctly in the archives. 
oh well.

What in this snippet is useful to you? I'm assuming it's 
"FastEthernet0/0/0 OA Link Subnet15", correct? MRTG creates these using 
cfgmaker. The man page of cfgmaker shows to use the "--ifref=SOMETHING" 
command to use other things as the description of the interface. You 
probably want:

	cfgmaker --ifref=descr public at 1.2.3.4

--Chris

I have been wrestling with this for a few days and haven't found anything
pertaining to this in the archives - When I do the MRTG integration as
described by Henrik, it seems to default to bits /second instead of bytes?
Is there a way to change this?   Also, is there anyway of showing the
percentage and the units of measurement on the graph as on a standard copy
of MRTG?  Thanks


-- 
John Wood
IT Manager
Metropolitan Library System