[mrtg] Re: Can anyone brief out to install MRTG on winnt

[Peck, Steven]

It's not that the 5 minute zip is wrong, just 'dated'.  You need to check
ALL the files to ensure your path is correct.

Other potential conflicts, paticularly if you are coming from an IT support
as opposed to a developer/programmer experiance viewpoint.  If you are using
an NT4 system and have installed the resource kits, make sure that the path
to Perl in the envirnment variable is not pointing to the Perl supplied with
the resource kit.  Make sure you get the latest Perl from Activestates
website.  Make sure you patch it per the instructions from the site.

It can be helpful to add the path to MRTG to the Envirnment variables when
setting up and troubleshooting to avoid a lot of repetitive typing.  Hard
code the path for the actual batch file though.

If you are not a programmer and don't do a lot of scripting, it may not be
obvious but you can name the mrtg.cfg to something else more descriptive, ie
router1.cfg.  For example here is how my MRTGKICK.BAT file is setup

REM  ----MRTGKICK.BAT ---------------------
REM  Purpose   :  Launch mrtg update per AT scheduled times
REM  Started   :  06/06/00  --base implementation and test - one router
REM  Modified  :  06/14/00  --Add routers for remote sites/production start

@echo off

REM - Rancho Cordova Router
c:\perl\bin\perl c:\mrtg\mrtg-2.8.12\run\mrtg
c:\mrtg\mrtg-2.8.12\run\rcmrtg.cfg

REM - Folsom Main router
c:\perl\bin\perl c:\mrtg\mrtg-2.8.12\run\mrtg
c:\mrtg\mrtg-2.8.12\run\fm01_rtr2.cfg

REM - Folsom Internet router outside firewall
c:\perl\bin\perl c:\mrtg\mrtg-2.8.12\run\mrtg
c:\mrtg\mrtg-2.8.12\run\fm01_rtr1.cfg

REM - Folsom Production Network router
c:\perl\bin\perl c:\mrtg\mrtg-2.8.12\run\mrtg
c:\mrtg\mrtg-2.8.12\run\fm01_rtr3.cfg

REM - Sunnyvale Main router
c:\perl\bin\perl c:\mrtg\mrtg-2.8.12\run\mrtg
c:\mrtg\mrtg-2.8.12\run\svale01_rtr2.cfg

REM - San Fransico Main router
c:\perl\bin\perl c:\mrtg\mrtg-2.8.12\run\mrtg
c:\mrtg\mrtg-2.8.12\run\sf01_rtr2.cfg

exit
REM  ------END File -------------------------------

Yes I realize that I could use START or CALL, but I don't feel the need too.

Other than that, the link that Jason supplied below is the one that got me
going.  In my copius spare time, I hope to get CPU utilization added, course
that seems to be involving a lot of reading about SNMP and time to play with
it.

Have fun.

Steven

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Ertel [mailto:jasone at NETOPS.IDT.NET]
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 11:18 AM
To: Chitra S; mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [mrtg] Re: Can anyone brief out to install MRTG on winnt




Chitra,

I got MRTG to run on NT by following the NT instructions here:

http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/nt-guide.html

You only need Perl and MRTG

Just be sure that in any bat files etc. that you have the
proper directory listings (The ones that come with 5minzip
are wrong!) So if you are running 2.8.12 and installed everything
in it's default it would look like this:

  c:\perl\bin\perl c:\mrtg-2.8.12\run\mrtg c:\mrtg-2.8.12\run\mrtg.cfg

Hope this helps...

Jason

At 09:48 AM 7/18/00 +0530, Chitra S wrote:
>
>Hi Techies,
>
>I am new to this list, Can anyone brief out to install and configure MRTG
on
>WinNT.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Chitra.
>


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