[mrtg] bbmrtg.pl and routers2.cgi

[Daniel J McDonald]

I've had to rebuild my main monitoring box, and I'm having a bit of
trouble with bbmrtg.pl
It supports routers2.cgi, but apparently burps on the hierarchical
config structure I have.  My main.cf file has a bunch of 
include subdir/router.cfg statements.  

in the bbmrtg.pl script, they try to refer to the main.cfg file when it
is supposed to display a single graph.  But that always returns the
first defined graph when it can't find the particular name.
routers2.cgi might be broken in that regard. I can work around that if I
to pass a particular subdir/router.cfg file instead.

Looking at the hash produced by MRTG_Lib.pm, I don't see that the
original file that the target is defined in is returned.

Seems like I have a couple of options:

1.  Hack MRTG_Lib to add the original file as one of the per-target
config items returned.  I'm reasonably comfortable with doing this, but
that would be a change to mrtg that would probably have performance
implications (wasted work/memory for most people, only solves my
problem) so it's possible that Tobi might reject the patch.

2.  Add a new bbmrtg.pl configuration directive like bbmrtg*cfgfile,
then add that value using my template files.  This is pretty easy to do,
but seems like a real kludge.

I did grab the most recent bbmrtg.pl file.  I had been using my own
hacked up copy, and I think the release version doesn't deal with the
directory directive properly.  I vaguely remember fixing it before -
I'll see if I can fix it again...

3.  Delve into routers2.cgi and make it work well using a hierarchical
directory structure for embedded pages.  It's been a long time since
I've even thought about fiddling with this file.


I'm open to suggestions as to the proper way to fix this...



-- 
Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX
Austin Energy
http://www.austinenergy.com

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