[mrtg] Re: Running MRTG as service on W2K server

[Bryant Loftin]

David,
I added the five mrtg scripts onto mom (our mrtg box) as services with
autostart

1) Copy srvany.exe to c:\winnt\system32 ;did this so that it should always
be in path from win2k reskit.
2) From cmd ran instsrv 'myservice' c:\winnt\system32\srvany.exe
3) run regedit32 and find
\\hklm\system\currentcontrolset\services\'myservice'
4) added for each
a subKey: Parameters

then added reg_sz values for: Application: d:\bin\perl\wperl.exe
and : AppParameters : d:\mrtg\bin\mrtg --logging=eventlog d:\(whatever path
to config file was appropriate) like d:\mrtg\out\switches\switches.cfg

5)then set the services up for autostarting. Did this because the scripts
keep whacking themselves every two weeks or so.

Make sure you have these global's in your cfg: 

RunAsDaemon:yes
Interval:5


bjl

-----Original Message-----
From: Soden, David [mailto:dsoden at cov.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:23 PM
To: 'mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch'
Subject: [mrtg] Running MRTG as service on W2K server


I currently have mrtg 2.9.17 running on a Windows 2000 server and
it works fine but I'd like to run the process as a service instead
of as a CMD executable.  So far, I have successfully created a
service using the SRVANY.EXE tool from the Windows 2000 Resource
Kit but it only creates the webpages once upon initial startup of
the service.  I am looking for the 5 minute interval that I get
when I execute the CMD file manually.

Has anyone had any success running mrtg as a service on a Windows
2000 server?  Any hints suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Again, all works great if I just run it from the CMD line.

Thanks,

David Soden

--
Unsubscribe mailto:mrtg-request at list.ee.ethz.ch?subject=unsubscribe
Archive     http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg
FAQ         http://faq.mrtg.org    Homepage     http://www.mrtg.org
WebAdmin    http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi

--
Unsubscribe mailto:mrtg-request at list.ee.ethz.ch?subject=unsubscribe
Archive     http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg
FAQ         http://faq.mrtg.org    Homepage     http://www.mrtg.org
WebAdmin    http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi


--
Unsubscribe mailto:mrtg-request at list.ee.ethz.ch?subject=unsubscribe
Archive     http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg
FAQ         http://faq.mrtg.org    Homepage     http://www.mrtg.org
WebAdmin    http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi