[mrtg] Re: MRTG on Solaris 8

[John Schons]

Hi Derek, 

It's me again. I'm still trying to put all the pieces together to get
MRTG running on Solaris 8. Here's where I'm at:

Running Solaris 8 on a Sparc box. I have the developer's packages
loaded, necessary for gcc, etc. I have downloaded:

gcc-3.4.1, libpng-1.2.6, autoconf-2.59, bison-1.875d, flex-2.5.31, and
make-3.80.

>From what I can figure "thing one" is to have a compiled version of gcc
in place before anything else works. I'm still searching for that. Then
the idea is to unpack each of the packages into /usr/local/<pkg> and get
them running and then get MRTG going in much the same way. Does that
sound right? It looks like I have to get zlib going before libpng but is
there any particular order for the rest of the packages? Any other hints
/ clues / encouragement would be welcomed.

Thanks,

John Schons
Los Angeles, CA


John Schons
(562) 940 3024

>>> Derek Winkler <dwinkler at algorithmics.com> 08/23/04 02:13PM >>>
I run MRTG on multiple Solaris 8 systems.

I tend to use Sunfreeware packages for tools which puts gcc in
/usr/local.

Here, MRTG has it's own home directory, which is where the binaries,
configs
and HTML are kept. This makes it easy in an environment where the home
directories are shared out.

You can pretty much keep anything anywhere you want.

Last time I built an MRTG binary I used gcc from Sunfreeware and just
installed the dependencies in my home directory and made sure they
were
statically linked in MRTG so I didn't need to worry about installing
the
libraries on every server.

For cross-platform stuff, (I display CPU/Swap usage for AIX and HPUX
servers
from the Solaris system) I just have those systems create the MRTG data
in a
file on the system. The MRTG "master" server has a config which just
does an
ssh and cats those files using an external monitoring script target.
Easier
than maintaing binaries for every different platform, here anyways.

Good luck.

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> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 4:41 PM
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> Subject: [mrtg] MRTG on Solaris 8
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> 
> Does anyone out there have experience running MRTG on Solaris 8 ? I
am
> from an HPUX background and have questions about what 
> directory gcc goes
> in, etc. 
> 
> Tx, John Schons, LA, CA
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