[mrtg] how to echo system.sysDescr.0 in the output html

[Steve Shipway]

> >> I want to echo the current value for system.sysDescr.0 into the html
> >> output
> >> file but cannot get it to work.
> >> In fact i don't know how to get it done :)
> >
> > You could set up code to extract this value and put it into the PageTop
> or
> > PageFoot and put this into a host template that you use with cfgmaker
> when
> > you create the .cfg file for MRTG.
> 
> I'll be happy to echo something into the PageTop, will serve my needs for
> now.
> Could you elaborate on what code i would need to put where to accomplish
> that?

You'll need to put Perl code in the cfgmaker interface template.   Read up on the cfgmaker documentation for this... and of course you'll need to be adequately good at perl coding.  I don't have the itme to write the whole thing for you though!  Take a look at the sample templates in the template library at http://www.steveshipway.org/cfgmaker

> I have tried various stuff including calling scripts from the PageTop
> directly, but it will just echo whatever i put in there. I can only
> imagine
> i need to put a var in there, but how do i get it to be read by the host
> template?

If you are using MRTG/RRD with Routers2 then you can put vars in the Pagetop, and later versions of routers2 let you put in Includes and even external execs which would achieve this by a long route.  The difference is if you want this value to be re-polled each time you look, or if it is sufficient to just poll it once when you initially set up the MRTG configuration file (IE by using cfgmaker templates)

Steve