[mrtg] Monitoring Windows disk free space and named OID's

[Stuart Kendrick]

hi amos,

i'm out of ideas on why your Target line doesn't work :(

MRTG has a templating facility ... i haven't used it, however, so i 
don't have any brilliant insights to offer

i, too, became tired of cutting & pasting all those lines into my config 
files ... so i wrote code to do it for me (see 
http://www.skendric.com/trend/graphs/mrtg-net-snmpd.pdf for the 
results).  i add hostnames to a text file now, and every night, a cron 
job reads that file, rebuilds the relevant mrtg config file, and life is 
sweet.  the code is available off SourceForge (the 'Netops toolkit') or 
directly from http://www.skendric.com/device/

since i haven't used MRTG's template facility ... i don't know what 
would be easier ... to figure out MRTG templates or to wrestle with my code

--sk

Amos Shapira wrote:
> On 22/03/07, Stuart Kendrick <skendric at fhcrc.org> wrote:
>> hi amos,
>>
>> i really like the idea of using Object Values instead of OIDs ... but as
>> i say, i've had trouble stringing together the MIB dependencies
>>
>> still, if you're just using MIB-II and HOST-RESOURCES-MIB, perhaps you
>> can pull it off ... i seem to recall doing just that, for a while ...
>> but then i started adding Cisco gear and Nokia gear and Altiga gear ...
>> and although i thought i had all this MIB dependencies worked out and
>> listed on my LoadMIBs: line, i still ran into errors
> 
> I wonder whether it's possible to get the info from MRTG on what it
> failed to find...
> 
>> yes, snmptranslate is our friend ...
>>
>> anyway, how about yanking that leading dot in the Target line?
>>
>> Target[IP_DriveC]: hrStorageSize.1:community at IP -
>> hrStorageUsed.1:community at IP
> 
> That was my first attempt - the dot was added later when it didn't
> work without it.
> 
> Anyway - my bigger concern now is having to duplicate so much
> configuration for each host and each interface. I wish there was some
> Nagios2-style "template" and "class" configuration that could allow me
> to say "this host runs Windows SNMP - yank THESE values from it and
> graph them THAT way". (or maybe there is already something to do
> that?)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --Amos
> 
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