[mrtg] Re: MRTG log file parsing

[Steve Shipway]

> "parsing the MRTG log file AND writing a report based on the 
> contents" is what I really meant to say.
> 
> Kind of like awstats for MRTG if anyone is familiar with this.

By far the easiest way to achieve this is to move to RRDTool.  There are
many reporting scripts for RRD-based databases, since this is much more
flexible.  It's also more efficient!

You can switch your existing MRTG over to use RRD without too much trouble.
There is a conversion utility to change .log files to .rrd, and you just
have to add one line to the .cfg files to let MRTG know.  You will also find
a huge performance improvement on data gather.

The downside is that you will need to install a CGI script - such as
routers2, 14all or mrtg-rrd - to display the graphs (which are now created
on demand) but this will give you more flexibility in any case.  Then, there
is a Perl library (and also a PHP library) to access and query the RRD
database from any script you care to write.

Rather than try to parse the old .log files, and have to deal with locking
issues, I'd go this way.

Steve


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