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Chapter 9
Monitoring Traffic
The MRTG button
Displays MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher) graphs, which enable you to monitor Traffic Server
performance and network traffic. Refer to
Using MRTG‚ on page 70
.
Working with Traffic Manager Alarms
Traffic Server signals an alarm when it detects a problem (for example, if the
traffic_server
process shuts
down, if the space allocated to event logs is full, or if Traffic Server cannot write to a configuration file).
Traffic Server signals alarms by displaying a red alarm button with an exclamation point on the Dashboard
in Traffic Manager. Click the red alarm button to view alarm messages.
Figure 9-2. shows the red alarm button on the Dashboard.
Figure 9-2. Alarms on the Dashboard
Resolving alarms
After you have read an alarm message, you can click the Resolve button in the alarm message window to tell
Traffic Server that you have been informed of the problem and to dismiss the alarm.
Traffic Server alarm
messages‚ on page 229
provides a description of all the alarm messages that Traffic Server provides.
IMPORTANT
Clicking the Resolve button only dismisses alarm messages; it does not actually resolve
the cause of the alarms.
This button indicates that one or
more alarms exist on the Traffic
Server node. Click this button to
display alarm messages.