[mrtg] Wow--This is Difficult to Setup!

[Lyle Giese]

Bjorgen

That's the way cfgmaker works.  It will add the interfaces that are
down, but will comment them out.  So if you want MRTG to ask for the
stats on those ports, you need to uncomment them in the .cfg.

Each Interface gets it's own page in MRTG with four sets of graphs,
daily, weekly, monthly & yearly.  I have built some nice cgi scripts for
inhouse use like you are talking about.  For instance I made a script to
display the daily graphs for all interfaces on a managed switch and made
those links to the full MRTG page for that interface.

I have not played with RRD, but should do that here as the processing
time for MRTG to make the graphs can get intensive on larger systems can
be excessive.

Lyle Giese
LCR Computer Services, Inc.

Bjorgen T. Eatinger wrote:
> Hello Kevin,
>  
> Thank you for your reply!  I managed to get the service running
> correctly, and now that aspect is working great.
>  
> And I looked in the MRTG.CFG file and found that it appears that the
> switches were, for the most part, configured somewhat, but that
> everything was completely commented out for some reason.  Some of the
> ports were commented out as they are disabled (by us administrators),
> but I still need all ports to be monitored whether disabled or not.
>  
> Also, I am wondering if I will get a separate HTML file for each of
> these devices, or if I will simply get one massive HTML page.  We
> would much rather have separate HTML files for each device, if that is
> possible, then we will build our own front-end menu to select the
> device we wish to monitor.
>  
> Sincerely, Bjorgen
>
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> *From:* Kevin Stone [mailto:kjstone at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:01 PM
> *To:* Bjorgen T. Eatinger
> *Subject:* Re: [mrtg] Wow--This is Difficult to Setup!
>
> On Windows I've never tried to run it as a service.  Typically I set
> up a batch file to be run from the Task Scheduler every 5 minutes for
> 23 hours and 55 minutes.  This has worked for me many times over many
> years.  Alternatively, there are some free/OSS cron clones for
> Windows.  These may work as well.
>
> I can't help on the cfgmaker issue, all my devices are and have been
> Cisco and that works quite well.
>
> -Kevin
>
> On 3/28/07, *Bjorgen T. Eatinger *<beatinger at edenhosting.net
> <mailto:beatinger at edenhosting.net>> wrote:
>
>     I have completely installed and managed to get running most of the
>     MRTG code, running on MS Advanced Server 2003, IIS v6.0, including
>     using the SRVANY.EXE so that the MRTG script will run as a service.
>      
>     I have 2 problems, as follows:
>      
>     1. Using the cfgmaker script, I cannot get more than just a router
>     added to the MRTG.CFG file.  We have a Cisco 1720 router, a Cisco
>     PIX 506e (which we probably don't need to monitor), and six 3COM
>     24-port switches.  Of most interest are the six 3COM switches. 
>     How do we get all of these devices in the configuration file?
>      
>     2. Even with the one device (the Cisco router) correctly
>     configured in the MRTG.CFG file, we cannot get the updates to work
>     reliably.  I don't see much activity happening.  I finally stopped
>     the MRTG service for a few hours, then started it again, and then
>     saw activity, but then left the service running again for several
>     hours, and no additional activity occurred.  How do we tell the
>     service to run the mrtg script from time to time?
>      
>     The statistics were last updated *Wednesday, 28 March 2007 at 19:50*,
>     at which time *'TheEdenGroup.tierzero.net
>     <http://TheEdenGroup.tierzero.net>'* had been up for *2 days,
>     10:44:15*.
>      
>      
>     You can hit the graphs at the following URL:
>      
>     http://mrtg.edenhosting.net/208.179.153.225_fastethernet0.html
>     <http://mrtg.edenhosting.net/208.179.153.225_fastethernet0.html>
>      
>     Your help is greatly appreciated!
>      
>     Sincerely, Bjorgen T. Eatinger
>     www.edenhosting.net <http://www.edenhosting.net>
>      
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