[mrtg] Re: Moving from MRTG to MRTG+ rrdtool?

[William Owen]

I take all of the common components of my MRTG config files (i.e. WorkDir,
Interval, Refresh, LogFormat...), remove them from the individual config
files and place them in one master.cfg.  I then use an Include:
/Path/To/File.cfg statement to 'include' the other configs.  You can then
setup one cron job to run the master.cfg file which updates all of the cfg
files referenced with Include: statements.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Reimers [mailto:tim.reimers at asheville.k12.nc.us] 
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 7:48 AM
To: MRTG Mailing list
Subject: [mrtg] Moving from MRTG to MRTG+ rrdtool?

Hi-

I've got quite a lot of switches to monitor- about 100 or so
Using just a little Dell Optiplex GX240 at this point-

I've so far been putting an instance of MRTG into /etc/crontab
after the fashion of:
0-59/5 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/switch1.cfg
2-59/5 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/switch2.cfg
3-59/5 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/switch3.cfg
4-59/5 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/switch4.cfg
5-59/5 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/switch5.cfg
0-59/5 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/switch1.cfg

I've heard that this does not scale well-

I'm looking for some ideas on what the most current and best method of
handling this is-
I'm not a programmer/scripter at all- I struggle a bit just getting the
configs to work, so I'm not 
going to be able to hand-write PHP or Perl to 'roll my own' system of
handling multiple cfg files
running...

what's the best current tool for doing this?

Tim Reimers
Asheville City Schools IT
tim.reimers(at)asheville(dot)k12(dot)nc(dot)us
828-255-5304x374
 


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