Error running /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/rrdutil.cgi -a update

[Guest]

I get the following error message:

ERROR: couldn't find oid for fxp1!

not sure what this means.

[davidcl]

Most likely it means that your NIC has a different device name.  For example, my NIC is rl0.  (fxp1 would be an Intel NIC, rl0 is a Realtek NIC).

You can figure out which one you have by reading /var/log/dmesg.today (among other methods).

Once you figure out the correct device name, edit /usr/local/etc/rrdutil.conf and voila!

[matt]

The easiest way to determine your NIC's device ID is simply:

ifconfig -a

That will display a list of all your network interfaces. It will work on any Unix like OS.  On FreeBSD, you can just type "ifconfig" and it defaults to -a but I'm in the habit of -a since I work on quite a few unix variants.