[mrtg] (no subject)

[Rodge Stumbaugh]

Sorry, I wasn't saying I was going anywhere and I'm not a network admin, I
just happened to take a job where mrtg was setup already, but someone came
to me and asked me to look at a few things that weren't working. I'm not
much help at writing any kind of code, but I have gone in and found problems
and fixed them. That seems to be the issue here, the includes have some
errors in them  on just one or two devices(of course one is an ancient
stinger). I just thought it would be easier to tackle the problem if I
understood how the system works, but I couldn't find a whole lot of info on
includes, which is why I came to the list. I've been doing IT work for a
pretty long time, but am in no way an expert. Thanks for the help though.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Cariffe [mailto:ccariffe at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:23 PM
To: Rodge Stumbaugh
Subject: Re: [mrtg] (no subject)

>>If there is a document on how to walk into an already setup mrtg
> environment and fix a few inc files that aren't working, I'd love a link
> though, lol.

thats is funny!!  imagine a network admin ready to leave his or her
position and writing that, NOT!

Of what i recall, the includes are just additional configuration
files, have you opened them?  have your run mrtg against them
directly?

-chris

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Rodge Stumbaugh
<monkeyhouserodge at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, I actually have been perusing the documentation online, mostly
because
> for some reason the html docs seem to have been removed from the latest
> download and the text files are pretty difficult to get though with all of
> the extra characters, but I haven't found any documentation on includes,
no
> info on how to create them or even what the benefits would be. What I did
> find though was a link to get on this list for support, which is where I
am
> now. If there is a document on how to walk into an already setup mrtg
> environment and fix a few inc files that aren't working, I'd love a link
> though, lol.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Cariffe [mailto:ccariffe at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:41 AM
> To: Rodge Stumbaugh
> Subject: Re: [mrtg] (no subject)
>
> i think you need to paruse the mrtg documentation pages some, all of
> this is explained there...
> good luck.
> http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/doc/index.en.html
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Rodge Stumbaugh
> <monkeyhouserodge at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On this particular setup, yes, these files are all pretty much cfg files
> as
>> far as I can tell. There is an entire directory under mrtgdata called
>> includes. From what I see the html files gather their data from the inc
>> files.although I haven't quite figured out how the png files are created
> yet
>> for the graphs. Bob, I hate to sound stupid here, but I'm not sure by
what
>> you mean what do they point to. I ran the config maker just to compare
>> results and yes I can create inc files, but the data is different, which
I
>> kind of knew from another post that a lot of these files seem to be hand
>> edited. So, is it safe to assume I can substitute inc for cfg in the
>> documentation for mrtg? Sure wish I had taken a programming language at
> some
>> point.
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Mersberger, Robert [mailto:robert.mersberger at goldenliving.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:05 AM
>> To: Rodge Stumbaugh; mrtg at lists.oetiker.ch
>> Subject: RE: [mrtg] (no subject)
>>
>>
>>
>> What do your inc files point top.  I am thinking that the inc is just a
>> table of include files and these are the actual cfgs.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> On Behalf Of Rodge Stumbaugh
>> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:57 AM
>> To: mrtg at lists.oetiker.ch
>> Subject: [mrtg] (no subject)
>>
>> I walked into an already setup mftg environment. I notice that this setup
>> doesn't use .cfg files, but uses .inc files for configuration. This setup
>> also has monitoring for not just routers and interfaces, but for
switches,
>> their interfaces and the servers(windows) connected to those interfaces.
> In
>> looking at the latest documentation, it still lists .cfg files. My
> question
>> is how are the .inc files setup? Is there any documentation on .inc
files?
>>
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