[ixpmanager] mrtg on sflow host?

Nick Hilliard nick at foobar.org
Mon Feb 15 12:14:15 GMT 2021


Ian Chilton wrote on 15/02/2021 12:06:
> https://docs.ixpmanager.org/features/sflow-p2p/ lists “mrtg (for 
> Net_SNMP_util)” as a requirement on the sflow host.
> 
> Anyone able to elaborate on that requirement a bit?
> 
> IIRC, it doesn’t need to run MRTG on the sflow host, so I’m intrigued 
> why it’s a dependency.

this perl module is used by the update-l2database.pl script.  This 
script doesn't need to be run on the server which runs the sflow p2p 
graphs, but it does need to be run somewhere.

Nick



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