Metauser: November 2007 Archive

November 2007 Archive

New Web Host!

November 27, 2007 Posted by mitch | website | 0 Comments

Well... If your seeing this post, then your hitting my new web server! Its got about 2.5x's more RAM than the old one so, we should be running on less swap than before... hopefully its faster for everyone.... and more stable...

Site changes upcomming

November 23, 2007 Posted by mitch | website | 0 Comments

I'm going to be making some changes to the site involving DNS servers and mail servers and such over the coming week or so, so you may experience intermittent problems with my my site... be patient :)

Cacti graphing for 1Gbit network interfaces

November 19, 2007 Posted by mitch | work | 0 Comments

At my current place of employement, gigabit is deployed everywhere. I'd rather not get into the details as to why it is, but it goes without saying that its not really needed *everywhere*. None the less, I had cacti up and graphing for a couple months, before I thought I'd really like to see cacti graph a fully utilized gigabit port. Well, it turns out that the default configuration of the ucd/net snmp network interface ports on cacti will not graph a gigabit port. It will appear to work, but seems to wrap around at about 120Mbit. The reason is, cacti by default uses 32bit counters for this setting. It has a drop down under the network interfaces when creating graphs on a device, to use 64-bit counters. This is required for gigabit ports (if you want to get a true representation for the graph). I will see if I can grab some screen shots of this when I get back to work.

But overall, I love cacti and even after looking at similar tools, I much prefer cacti over anything else.

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