[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.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
>
>             ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>             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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>
>             -- 
>
>             Thanks
>             G. Ashok Kumar
>             Softential
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>         Thanks
>         G. Ashok Kumar
>         Softential
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>
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>     -- 
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>     Thanks
>     G. Ashok Kumar
>     Softential
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>
>
>
> Kind Regards
> G. Ashok Kumar,
> Softential.
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