[mrtg] Re: mrtg/rrdtool integration on winnt

[Dan Wozniak]

I found a win32 package
(http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.0.48.w
in32-perl58-distr.zip) which includes all the files I was "missing".
It's not the latest version but this should work.  Thanks for the help
William :)

-----Original Message-----
From: William Owen [mailto:william.owen at profilesmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 2:36 PM
To: Dan Wozniak
Subject: RE: [mrtg] mrtg/rrdtool integration on winnt

That is rather interesting.  I have actually been steadily updating my
install from way back the 1.0.35 days.  The last clean install I did was
using the files from
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.0.48.wi
n32-
perl58-distr.zip which does contain the perl-shared modules (this is the
version I'm running).  I would recommend using this dist as I'm not sure
if
there is a way to make MRTG function with only the binary .exe file
because
it is written to use RRDs.pm (the perl-shared module).  If you like
coding,
you can actually use this module with Perl to manipulate your data and
generate custom graphs if you like.

If you are familiar with compiling C programs, you might consider
compiling
from source
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.0.49.ta
r.gz
but otherwise I would stick to the perl58-dist.  Unfortunately the
support
for Win32 lags a revision or two behind from time to time.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Wozniak [mailto:dwozniak at exs.esb.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 1:27 PM
To: William Owen
Cc: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: RE: [mrtg] mrtg/rrdtool integration on winnt

Thanks for the response William.  You see when I downloaded the win32
rrdtool binaries
(http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.0.49-w
in32-bin.zip) and unzip it to a folder I'm left with 3 files(rrd.lib,
rrd_cgi.exe, rrdtool.exe).  There is not a "Perl-Shared" folder or any
other folders.  Should I create those folders?  Then it wants me to run
the command "ppm install rrds.ppd" in the "perl-shared" directory.
Perl does not find rrds.ppd file.

-----Original Message-----
From: William Owen [mailto:william.owen at profilesmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 2:10 PM
To: Dan Wozniak
Subject: RE: [mrtg] mrtg/rrdtool integration on winnt

I can't give you the play by play of the setup but here is a copy of the
relevant paths and the top portion of my master.cfg (that has include
statements calling all the other configs).

Things to note:
When using RRDTool, if you actually install RRDTool to your Perl
instance by
going into your Perl-Shared directory and running:
D:\MRTG\RRDTool\Perl-Shared>Perl makefile.pl
D:\MRTG\RRDTool\Perl-Shared>Nmake
D:\MRTG\RRDTool\Perl-Shared>Nmake install
Then you do not need the LibAdd for the Perl-Shared stuff for RRDTool to
work.

Also, make sure the user that you collector works from has read/write
permissions to the WorkDir directory.  If you are breaking down by
ImageDir,
HTMLDir and LogDir (I believe these are the three), you will only get
data
in the LogDir location as RRDTool does not create Images or HTML
documents
at collection time.  You will need to get a front end that supports IIS
6 to
display your graphs for you.  I have used both 14all.cgi and
routers2.pl.  I
currently use routers2 as it allows for creation of custom graphs from
existing data.

If you have any other questions, let me know.

MRTG Root Directory: D:\MRTG\MRTG
MRTG Bin Directory: D:\MRTG\MRTG\bin
RRDTool Root Directory: D:\MRTG\RRDTool
RRDTool Perl-Shared: D:\MRTG\RRDTool\Perl-Shared
RRDTool Bin Directory: D:\MRTG\RRDTool\src\Tool_Release
Configs Dir: D:\MRTG\Configs\<DeviceCatagory>
WorkDir: D:\MRTG\Data\<DeviceName>

Master.cfg

##### change dirs as needed versions etc etc ####

PathAdd: D:\MRTG\MRTG\bin
LibAdd: D:\MRTG\MRTG\lib\mrtg2

PathAdd: D:\MRTG\RRDTool\src\tool_release
# LibAdd: D:\MRTG\RRDTool\Perl-Shared

###### the rest of your cfg file here #####

LogFormat: rrdtool

WorkDir: D:\MRTG\Data\

Refresh: 300
Interval: 5

Include: D:\MRTG\Configs\Servers\Server1.cfg
Include: D:\MRTG\Configs\Routers\Router1.cfg


-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Wozniak [mailto:dwozniak at exs.esb.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 12:41 PM
To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Cc: Dan Wozniak
Subject: [mrtg] mrtg/rrdtool integration on winnt

I'm running MRTG on a Windows 2003 server to monitor various
snmp-enabled devices.  I'm trying to integrate RRDTool into the current
MRTG setup but I can't find any documentation specifically for windows.
I found this link
(http://www.enterastream.com/whitepapers/mrtg/mrtg-manual.html) on
www.mrtg.org but the configuration steps reference to folders such as
"rrdtool/perl-shared" and "rrdtool/bin" which are obviously for unix and
don't exist in the win32 rrdtool package.  Where can I find
documentation to integrate rrdtool with mrtg solely for a win32 system?
Thanks.
--Dan

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