Overtime.cfg holds user defined system configuration information.
Overtime.cfg is a plain text file. Each line commences with a case sensitive
keyword followed by a blank and then the value for this keyword.
The
keywords, their defaults and meanings are shown here in the format:
keyword default=meaning
company None = This is usually the company or Organisation's
name for the installation. This name is only used as part of the title in
index.html. It can be any text.
cgidir cgi-bin
= This is the directory that the web server knows about that houses the cgi programs for this system, including devdtl
and devmst.
collectfile /usr/OverTime/collects
= The name of the temporary file used by otadd and otdel to merge collections into snmpCol.conf.
rrddd /usr/OverTime/data/
= The directory that OverTime will create sysName directories in that in turn will house the RRD
databases.
devcfgdir /usr/OverTime/cfgs/
= The directory that OverTime will create sysName.mst within.
dnsfile /usr/OverTime/cfgs/ot.csv
= The file that OverTime uses to simplify the
creation of index.html and for ottgts.
sys_out_file /usr/OverTime/sys_out.txt = A temporary file used internally.
ov_dbs /usr/OV/databases/snmpCollect/
= The location on the system where IBM NetView keeps
the snmpCollected data.
ovconf /usr/OV/conf/snmpCol.conf
= The full directory path to IBM NetView’s snmpCol.conf file.
roothtml index.html = The name of
the HTML file that houses the list of devices being monitored by OverTime.
webdir /usr/OV/www/htdocs/OverTime/
= The directory path where the graphics directories will be created. This is
from the operating systems perspective and not from
the web server’s perspective.
websubdir /OverTime/
= This is the web servers’s perspective of the same
location as webdir above.
graph_parms –z = This is the string to be passed to the
RRD graph command for additional features.
–h 400 –w 800 –z would change the size of the graphs to this
height and width and only create the graphs if they are not current.
An
understanding of RRD graph is needed to use this properly.
sample_time 300 = This is the default sample time in
seconds that will be used for the creation of any new I/O based RRDs.
If
the parameter is omitted, 300 (5 minutes) is assumed (This is user configurable
for NEW RRDs).
pt_cmds PingTime-
= The beginning of a file name that will hold the PingTime
commands for a specific frequency.
I.E.
PingTime-300 holds the 5 minute collection commands for PingTime.
pt_cgi /usr/OV/www/cgi-bin/pingtime = the fully
qualified location and the name of the PingTime
executable.
Indexbysysname 1=Determines what labels should be shown in the roothtml
page.
1
indicates that sysNames should be used while a 0
indicates that NetView's selection names should be
used.
groupall 1=display all the instances
for a particular part of a MIB on the one graph or separate graphs.
When
set to 0, each instance is displayed on a separate graph.
When
set to 1, all instances are displayed on the 1 graph.
AvgMinMax 7=Creates RRD files that store Averages, Minimum and Maximum values.
It
is the sum of 4 for Averages, 2 for Minimums and 1 for Maximums.
PrimaryDataPts 360=This is the total number of actual data
values observed that will be stored in the RRDTool
database.