[mrtg] SRVANY issue? (Newbie Alert)

Meyer, Bruce BDMeyer at columbiasc.net
Sun Feb 13 18:52:02 MET 2005


I just installed the latest version of MRTG, and active perl (as of
2-10-2005) on a w2k standard server. I believe I have followed the
instructions in the :
mrtg-nt-guide
document to the letter.
My registry entries exist, mrtg is in C:\mrtg , srvany, instsrv, pslist,
pskill, all is in place.

My pressing problem is, that mrtg service, though supposedly running, once
first started, the graph is updated, then, it never runs again.

Here are a few things I noticed that might shed a light on what is wrong. I
have googled and found no posts about this, so it makes me think it is
something I did wrong.

Anyway, I ran it, it installed the service, I put the reg file (cat and
pasted), verified the info in the registry matches the info on the document.
I started the service and my graph was updated.

I check pslist | grep perl, ps list | grep MRTG and nothing exists. (srvany
is running)

I have seem some postings that the writer must be placing perl into the
registry and using srvany to launch perl.



Here is what I saw:



C:\MRTG\bin>perl c:\mrtg\bin\mrtg --logging=eventlog c:\mrtg\config\mrtg.cfg

Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at
C:/Perl/site/lib/Win32/Eventg.pm line 73.
Argument "Started mrtg with config 'c:\\mrtg\\config\\mrtg.cfg'\n" isn't
numer in subroutine entry at C:/Perl/site/lib/Win32/EventLog.pm line 46.
Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at
C:/Perl/site/lib/Win32/Eventg.pm line 199.
Argument "WARN" isn't numeric in subroutine entry at
C:/Perl/site/lib/Win32/EvtLog.pm line 199.
(graph was not updated)


Removing the --logging=eventlog and it works.
Using wperl instead of perl works with the --logging=eventlog option
C:\MRTG\bin>wperl c:\mrtg\bin\mrtg --logging=eventlog
c:\mrtg\config\mrtg.cfg

(graph was updated)

My mrtg.bat file (in c:\mrtg\bin) currently only looks like this:

C:\Perl\bin\perl c:\mrtg\bin\mrtg c:\mrtg\config\mrtg.cfg

I also tried:
C:\Perl\bin\wperl c:\mrtg\bin\mrtg c:\mrtg\config\mrtg.cfg

Either one updates the graph, but perl is never left runnin in pslist:


C:\MRTG\bin>pslist

PsList 1.26 - Process Information Lister
Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

Process information for IX3:

Name                Pid Pri Thd  Hnd   Priv        CPU Time    Elapsed Time
Idle                  0   0   2    0      0   240:07:54.250   124:15:34.421
System                8   8  61  220     24     0:35:30.125   124:15:34.421
SMSS                188  11   6   33   1076     0:00:02.171   124:15:34.421
CSRSS               216  13  14  667   1460     0:00:44.281   124:15:29.703
WINLOGON            212  13  17  357   7420     0:00:06.078   124:15:28.609
SERVICES            264   9  30  547   4140     0:26:20.109   124:15:27.546
LSASS               276   9  15  296   2428     0:16:02.031   124:15:27.531
SpntSvc             508   8  19  295   2884     0:19:38.906   124:15:25.718
StWatchDog          640   8   4   92   1016     0:00:00.171   124:15:20.937
StOPP               668   8   4   55    832     0:00:00.140   124:15:15.921
sqlservr            696  13  25  254 528916     0:25:09.265   124:15:15.140
svchost             708   8  11  314   2136     0:00:12.437   124:15:14.656
VxSvc               724   8  16  264  16288     0:00:04.359   124:15:14.578
winvnc              836   8   9  166   9048     0:46:43.828   124:15:13.781
DNS                 852   8  15  151   2028     0:00:36.890   124:15:13.437
svchost             872   8  17  535   3124     0:00:01.609   124:15:13.375
mr2kserv            888   8   2   42    456     0:00:00.093   124:15:13.265
ntfrs              1036   8   6  132   2300     0:00:00.781   124:15:12.109
mstask             1060   8   6  121   1160     0:00:00.265   124:15:11.656
inetinfo           1084   8  29  575   6496     0:11:32.500   124:15:11.531
dfssvc              368   8   2   40    468     0:00:00.234   124:15:09.640
MODUSCAN           1216   8  13  333  53676     0:42:45.406   124:15:09.375
LOCATOR            1236   8   6   60    684     0:00:00.140   124:15:08.234
ModusAdm           1252   8  18  395  16088     0:10:59.843   124:15:08.000
Monitor            1276   8  11  312   6668     0:07:57.515   124:15:07.312
smtpds             1320   8  61  482  10560     0:04:51.640   124:15:06.703
SMTPRS             1504   8  23  344  12076     3:19:20.640   124:15:05.703
WEBMAI~1           1676   8   8  195   6272     0:00:05.265   124:15:04.796
svchost            1984   8  12  170   1556     0:00:00.218   124:14:55.250
NMSSvc             1836   8   8  159   1324     0:00:03.484   124:14:22.187
DLLHOST            1868   8  10  162   1644     0:00:00.437   124:14:11.718
aspnet_wp          2196   8  14  537  41636     0:00:13.187   124:14:10.953
DLLHOST            2252   8  31  357   4292     0:06:16.484   124:14:09.531
SNMP               3704   8  10  327   5052     0:02:28.875    49:09:57.531
snmptrap           3768   8   5   86   1004     0:00:00.156    48:59:17.578
explorer           3984   8  12  404   8144     0:00:23.343     2:15:55.171
PROMon             4052   8   3   84    760     0:00:02.046     2:15:53.125
sqlmangr           4168   8   4  145   1808     0:00:31.281     2:15:52.875
TASKMGR            4272  13   3   38    768     0:00:02.625     1:31:59.250
mmc                4212   8   3  109   1928     0:00:01.906     1:19:39.390
CMD                4500   8   1   22    328     0:00:00.093     0:31:26.734
IEXPLORE           4104   8   8  288   3944     0:00:07.937     0:14:38.093
notepad            4424   8   3   46    812     0:00:00.187     0:01:08.984
srvany             4276   8   1   31    216     0:00:00.015     0:00:10.593
pslist             4100  13   2  111    820     0:00:00.062     0:00:00.250

C:\MRTG\bin>


I suspect I am supooed to somehow get perl as a service running also, but
haven't found a newgroup posting, wb site, or faq that adrresses my issue.
Please point me to the corect document that I have not read, so I can get
this going.

Thank-you!

Bruce Meyer



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