[mrtg] How to monitor non SNMP Device using MRTG
Lyle Giese
lyle at lcrcomputer.net
Wed Apr 28 17:09:31 CEST 2010
For Windows clients, they can do snmp, but also see NSCLIENT++ for more
info.
Lyle
Fehmi Dumani wrote:
> Greetings Ashok
>
> There must be a way to monitor windows servers as well. Unfortunatly I
> have no clue how to get information about uptime on windows machines,
> I have no experience on windows machines at all, and I am new on mrtg
> too, this is my second-third week of MRTG usage.
>
> But if you can get statistic information localy via CLI (cmd.exe)
> about the windows systems I think there wont be any trouble about
> getting these statistics on linux machines and create graphs.
>
> I will do my best to assist you on this task.
>
> Regards
>
> Fehmi.
>
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> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:01:12 +0530
> Subject: Re: [mrtg] How to monitor non SNMP Device using MRTG
> From: g.ashok1988 at gmail.com
> To: albadino at hotmail.com
> CC: mrtg at lists.oetiker.ch
>
> HiFehmi Dumani,
> with your very good explanation on non snmp based mrtg monitoring I'm
> able to monitor any linux system now.
> But, what about windows and printers that don't have any snmp enabled
> on them?
>
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:35 PM, ashok kumar <g.ashok1988 at gmail.com
> <mailto:g.ashok1988 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Dumani.
> It's working fine now. I used scp instead of ssh-copy-id.
> Thanks for your valuable time.
> If I have further queries I will post in the mailing list.
> Happy Posting. Take Care. Bye :)
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:25 PM, ashok kumar
> <g.ashok1988 at gmail.com <mailto:g.ashok1988 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> sorry Dumani,
> I didn't see your line ssh-copy-id [-i [identity_file]]
> [user@]machine.
> But my kernel says that *ssh-copy-id* not found. It seems I
> need to install that rmp.
>
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Fehmi Dumani
> <albadino at hotmail.com <mailto:albadino at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Yes it is
>
> You can run commands remotly on your machines via ssh or
> rsh the script is almost the same except you use command
>
> ssh user at hostip uptime <------------
> instead of
> uptime <------------------
>
> and first you have to configure ssh and install your
> public key via ssh-copy-id
>
> ssh-copy-id [-i [identity_file]] [user@]machine
>
> and than everythink is the same.
>
> Regards
>
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> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:03:11 +0530
>
> Subject: Re: [mrtg] How to monitor non SNMP Device using MRTG
> From: g.ashok1988 at gmail.com <mailto:g.ashok1988 at gmail.com>
> To: albadino at hotmail.com <mailto:albadino at hotmail.com>
> CC: mrtg at lists.oetiker.ch <mailto:mrtg at lists.oetiker.ch>
>
> Hi again Dumani,
> Thanks for your reply. In my previous reply I was more
> concerned about the remote system monitoring rather than
> my sytem. But you just mentioned about that in your last
> line like "Remember you can execute commands remotely via
> ssh or rsh so you can make load average graphs of other
> systems as well" which means that we can have mrtg to be
> running on remote machine and if you want to get that
> graphs you have to use httpd service. Isn't it?
> But my concern is about having all those data on my
> system(server) so that I can view the graphs at anytime
> and maintain log files on my system rather than running
> mrtg and maintining all the data in respective systems.
> Is it possible without snmp enabled on my client machines?
>
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Fehmi Dumani
> <albadino at hotmail.com <mailto:albadino at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Greetings Ashok
>
> On your script you are showing the VAL1 of a system
> running mrtg uptime for 1 min, the second VAL2 is
> showing your uptime and the and the system load
> averages for the past 1, 5. Since mrtg on his own
> creates a graph for periodic use in your cause every 5
> minutes you don't have to give bouth values showing
> the same thing
>
> VAL1=`echo "$SECOND*100" | bc | cut -f1 -d"."`
>
> and for
>
> VAL2=100
>
> your solid green will show the system load averages
> for the past 5 minutes of the system which will be
> periodically obtained. and the second line blue 100%
> that might be used.
>
>
> If I can make some modifications on your mrtg.cfg I
> would make it like this:
>
>
> EnableIPv6: no
> WorkDir: /home/Ashok/mrtg2/Station21/
> Interval: 5
> Title[load_avg]: Average Load on Station21
> PageTop[load_avg]: <H1>( Average Load on Station21 ) *
> 100</H1>
> Options[load_avg]: nobanner,gauge,growright
>
> Target[load_avg]: `/home/Ashok/mrtg2/cfg/load_avg.sh`
> MaxBytes[load_avg]: 100
> YLegend[load_avg]: LoadAvg * 100
> Unscaled[load_avg]: ymwd
> LegendI[load_avg]: Load Average
> LegendO[load_avg]: Max Load Average
>
> Suppress[load_avg]: y
> RunAsDaemon: Yes
> Refresh: 600
>
> I don't use mrtg as a daemon so it is up to you if you
> wana use it or do the job with crontab. All I add was
> LegendI and LegendO to put Max Average and Current
> show values and removed noinfo,nopercent, at options.
> Remember in order to view it on your page you have to
> configure httpd to set a dir
> /home/Ashok/mrtg2/Station21/ to be used, also if you
> have SELinux enabled you will have to run it on
> permisive mode or to create your own policies,
> otherwise it won't let you publish on httpd. Than all
> you have to do is get the indexmaker create the
> index.html and wait for some minutes to see your
> graphs. (Indexmaker usage command: indexmaker
> --output=/home/Ashok/mrtg2/Station21/index.html
> /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg
>
> Remember you can execute commands remotely via ssh or
> rsh so you can make load average graphs of other
> systems as well.
>
> Regards
>
>
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