[mrtg] Re: Organizing Targets

[Keith Kruepke]

Patrick,

I for one never use the cfgmaker output unmodified.  I usually just use cfgmaker to get a config for a router, and then I paste in the useful lines to a master config file.  Usually there are parts I wish to change anyway, such as the PageTop[] information.

I run just one .cfg file.  I put each city in a separate directory, using the Directory[] configuration line.  Multiple routers from the same city go to the same directory.  I also make sure to name the files (which means changing the target name that appears in the []'s) in a way that makes sense, if the cfgmaker name is not the best for a certain target.

In my case, I do not monitor every interface of every router.  I just focus on the WAN links (LAN stats are not nearly as interesting in most cases), and usually I will only monitor one router of the two that are connected to a particular link.  Sometimes this would be desired, but in my case, it is not.

I use the following options line to apply to ALL targets:

    Options[_]: bits, growright

These are just my preferences, so you can take them or leave them.

Regards,
Keith

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Bartkus" <patrckb at hotmail.com>
To: <mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 12:55 PM
Subject: [mrtg] Organizing Targets



Newbie question (extra grace requested <G>).

I have gotten MRTG  mrtg-2.9.0pre23 installed & running. I read about 
cfgmaker and created a config for one router. What wasn't documented was 
that when you run cfgmaker again, it wipes out your first run if you give it 
the same config file name (mrtg.cfg). Oh well...

My question is that I have devices (targets) in 5 cities that I would like 
to monitor ( 7 routers and as many Cisco switches). I can't find any hints 
as to how to organize them. Do I use cfgmaker into seperate files and then 
cat them all together? How do I organize the log, etc files? I would think I 
would want to put them in seperate directories.

How do others do this?

Do you create directories for each target within directories for each city? 
Do you have seperate *.cfg files for each target? city?

When reading about indexmaker, it doesn't mention any capability to set up 
indexes per directory.

Anyway, I was just wondering how others handle their MRTG site organization.

Patrick
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Patrick Bartkus, CCNP Certified Sr. Network Support Analyst
Fleet Mortgage Group     Columbia, SC
If truth was not absolute, how could there be justice?


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