[mrtg] CFGMAKER Suggestion

[Jason Jordan]

Howdy Folks,

I've had an idea I want to run by you kind folks...  Feel free to shoot 
it down.

CFGMAKER has a number of options such as "--no-down" and "--subdirs".  I 
was thinking about the following:

Firstly, "--no-down" shouldn't even list administratively down 
interfaces in the config file, it should just eliminate them 
altogether.. I know some of you like having them hashed out in the 
config file just so you know they're there... but I like clean little 
config files

Secondly - and perhaps more importantly, I find it useful to have a 
script that re-generates all of my config files every night.   because I 
use "--ifref=ip", this means I don't get my .rrds all messed up thanks 
to changing ifindexes.

What would be *lovely*  is a new tag in CFGMAKER like "--cisco-cpu", 
which adds the generic cisco 1 min and 5 min OIDs into your config 
file.  This could be extrapolated into whatever else people think is 
important.  Why not build mrtg-ping-probe capabilities into it? Have a 
"--ping", so that your MRTG server pings the device as well.

Then when you use 14all.cgi (you *ALL* use this brilliant bit of code 
don 't you!??!?), you'd get a lovely index page with interfaces, cpu and 
response time.  ALL IN ONE PLACE!

Now I know I could do this by having my config regenerator script 
concatenating template files after they've been created. however I think 
it would be much froopier if cfgmaker did it. 8-)

Ok, tear me apart. 8-)

Cheers, Jas


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