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<div style="">You can specity multiple methods in the latest cfgmaker, so that alternatives will be used if they exist and the preferred method is blank. You also do not tell use *what* is being used where you expect the Alias to be used.<br>
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Try this:<br>
<font size="2" face="Verdana"><span class="601335112-17032011">/usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/cfgmaker --no-down</span></font><span style="font-family: monospace;">
</span>--ifref=ip,name,nr<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"> -</span>-ifdesc=catname,ppname,alias,descr,ip,name,nr --global "WorkDir: /opt/apache/htdocs/mrtg/switch" --output switch.cfg
<a href="mailto:guessit@192.168.xxx.yyy" target="_blank">guessit@192.168.xxx.yyy</a><br>
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</span></font> Steve<br>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;"><strong>Steve Shipway</strong></div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">University of Auckland ITS</div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;"><em>UNIX Systems Design Lead</em></div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;"><a href="mailto:s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz">s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz</a></div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Ph: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86487</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF557174"><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> mrtg-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz@lists.oetiker.ch [mrtg-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz@lists.oetiker.ch] on behalf of Markus Lauterbach [markus.lauterbach@meinestadt.de]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 18 March 2011 2:24 a.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mrtg] problems with cfgmaker and ifdesc=alias<br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span class="601335112-17032011">Hi out there,</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span class="601335112-17032011"></span></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span class="601335112-17032011">I'm a recipient of this maillinglist for a few month now. With the announcement of the mrtg-release 2.17.1, I thought, my problem based on cfgmaker and my routers interface alias would be solved.
Now, I using mrtg-version 2.17.1 and my problem still exists. </span></font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span class="601335112-17032011"></span></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span class="601335112-17032011">bash-3.00$ /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/cfgmaker --version<br>
cfgmaker for mrtg-2.17.2</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span class="601335112-17032011"></span></font><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span class="601335112-17032011"></span></font> </div>
<div><span class="601335112-17032011"></span><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span class="601335112-17032011">I'm using a Cisco SG 300-52 52-port switch, which allows me, to label the interfaces. As you can see, I already did that</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Verdana"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Verdana">snmpwalk -c guessit 192.168.xxx.yyy .1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.18<br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.49 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.50 = STRING: server<span class="601335112-17032011">0</span>1.yourdomain.com<br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.51 = STRING: server<span class="601335112-17032011">0</span>2.yourdomain.com<br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.52 = STRING: server<span class="601335112-17032011">0</span>3.yourdomain.com<br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.53 = STRING: server<span class="601335112-17032011">0</span>4.yourdomain.com<br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.54 = STRING: server<span class="601335112-17032011">0</span>5.yourdomain.com<br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.55 = STRING: server<span class="601335112-17032011">0</span>6.yourdomain.com<br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.56 = STRING: server<span class="601335112-17032011">0</span>7.yourdomain.com<br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.57 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.58 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.59 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.60 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.61 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.62 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.63 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.64 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.65 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.66 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.67 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.68 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.69 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.70 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.71 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.72 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.73 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.74 = STRING: server<span class="601335112-17032011">0</span>8.yourdomain.com<br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.75 = STRING: server<span class="601335112-17032011">0</span>9.yourdomain.com<br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.76 = STRING: server10.yourdomain.com<br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.77 = STRING: server11.yourdomain.com<br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.78 = STRING: server12.yourdomain.com<br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.79 = STRING: server13.yourdomain.com<br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.80 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.81 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.82 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.83 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.84 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.85 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.86 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.87 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.88 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.89 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.90 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.91 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.92 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.93 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.94 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.95 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.96 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.97 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.98 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.99 = STRING: uplink<br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.100 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.1000 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.1001 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.1002 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.1003 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.1004 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.1005 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.1006 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.1007 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.3000 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.100000 = STRING: <br>
IF-MIB::ifAlias.300000 = STRING:</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span class="601335112-17032011">I'm using the cfgmaker with the following command ( /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/cfgmaker --no-down --ifdesc=alias --global "WorkDir: /opt/apache/htdocs/mrtg/switch" --output switch.cfg
<a href="mailto:guessit@192.168.xxx.yyy" target="_blank">guessit@192.168.xxx.yyy</a>; ), but unfortunately the interface alias isn't used in the cfg-file :(</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span class="601335112-17032011"></span></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span class="601335112-17032011">Is this option tricky to use or I'm not able to see the wood for the trees.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span class="601335112-17032011"></span></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span class="601335112-17032011">Much thanks in advance</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span class="601335112-17032011"></span></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span class="601335112-17032011">Markus</span></font><font size="2" face="Verdana"><span class="601335112-17032011"></span></font></div>
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