[mrtg] MRTG Not updating after upgrade

[Rafael Possamai]

I assumed your SNMP+MRTG was set up correctly... But now that you changed it
and it worked (or at least tried to gather data from it) I think that maybe
something was going on with SNMP. On my server I take all the data from
shell scripts, for example:
mrtg-load (memory and cpu)
mrtg-ip-acct (e.g. eth0)

Once I took data from sensors (lm-sensors) and it was working fine. After I
rebooted the server I noticed it stopped showing any new data with no error
messages. What happened was that the output was always 0 because the modules
for lm-sensors weren't loaded. So maybe your SNMP was giving MRTG useless
data like null/zero.

Here is a script for memory/cpu script: http://www.ext3.com.br/cpu.sh

wget that, chmod +x cpu.sh and the lines for it on mrtg.cfg should look
something like this:
--------
# Performance
*Target[perf]:`/path/to/cpu.sh`*
Title[perf]:"Average cpu load and memory use"
PageTop[perf]:"<h1>Average cpu load and memory use</h1>"
Options[perf]: growright,gauge,nopercent,noinfo,nobanner
YLegend[perf]: Percentual
ShortLegend[perf]: %
MaxBytes[perf]: 100
Legend1[perf]: CPU Load
Legend2[perf]: Memory use
LegendI[perf]: Load
LegendO[perf]: Mem
--------

If it works just fine... I would say your problem is at the snmp set up.

Rafael.





On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Noob Centos Admin
<centos.admin at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > 1. it is pretty simple to work with. you just have to set up a mrtg.cfg
> file
> > and it should work fine even when you have a very minimal configuration.
> > 2. permissions are something that may botter you if there's even one file
> > that the daemon can't read/write/execute, but it should be easy to fix
> when
> > you have access to log files.
> > 3. try setting up the options for a log directory. add the following line
> to
> > your conf file if you don't have one like that yet:
> > Logdir: /etc/mrtg/logs
> > make sure the path exists and has the proper permissions.
> > 4. make sure that mrtg is being ran under root user and group. if you
> change
> > mrtg's user and group you will have to change all those permissions
> again.
> > 5. use -R with chmod when you change permissions of directories with
> files
> > on it, so it will apply for everything, not only the main directory your
> > working with. e.g.: chmod -R 777 /etc/mrtg /var/html/www/mrtg/
> > 6. backup all your data from /var/html/www/mrtg/ and delete it from there
> > and try to run mrtg as it was it's first time being ran.
>
> I mv away the existing mrtg directory in my /var/html/www directory,
> then used cfgmaker public at localhost to create a most minimal cfg file,
> adding only the Workdir and Logdir. Basically apart from comment
> lines, there appears only to be 3 effective lines, e.g. workdir,
> logdir and EnableIPv6: no
>
> The mrtg binary files and the output directories are all under root
> currently, permissions on everything in the output folder to 777 to
> eliminate any potential permissions problem.
>
> Running from command line, the same thing happens. MRTG recreates the
> missing MRTG header pictures in the workdir, including the zero byte
> mrtg.ok (is this supposed to be zero byte?). However, no log files are
> created in the log folder.
>
> Logging is done, I had tail -f on the file and updates accordingly
> with no error message whatsoever.
>
> <pre>
> 2009-07-12 21:59:53 -- Started mrtg with config
> '/var/www/html/mrtg/core/mrtg.cfg'
> 2009-07-12 21:59:53 -- --base: Creating Lockfiles
> /var/www/html/mrtg/core/mrtg.cfg_l,/var/www/html/mrtg/core/mrtg.cfg_l_21308
> 2009-07-12 21:59:53 -- --base: Reading Config File:
> /var/www/html/mrtg/core/mrtg.cfg
> 2009-07-12 21:59:53 -- --base: Reading Interface Config cache
> 2009-07-12 21:59:53 -- --base: Checking Config File
> 2009-07-12 21:59:53 -- --base: Loading default Locale
> 2009-07-12 21:59:53 -- --base: Starting main Loop
> 2009-07-12 21:59:53 -- --base: Populate Target object by polling SNMP
> and external Datasources
> 2009-07-12 21:59:53 -- --base: Exit main Loop
> 2009-07-12 21:59:53 -- --base: Remove Lock Files
> 2009-07-12 21:59:53 -- --base: Store Interface Config Cache
> </pre>
>
> I tried add an example from
> http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/TUT:MRTG  where it uses
> more advanced MRTG commands with SNMP to monitor CPU usage. This had
> the effect of MRTG logging SNMP errors, specifically, the log file now
> show actual attempt to get data from SNMP.
>
> So this makes me wonder if the default setup wasn't working and MRTG
> was not even polling for data due to some unknown problem. Is there
> some way to make MRTG tell what data it is seeing or is it getting any
> data when trying to get the default data like load and network
> traffic?
>
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