[mrtg] Issue with cfgmaker

Lyle Giese lyle at lcrcomputer.net
Wed Oct 20 17:09:06 CEST 2010


Jensen, Mark wrote:
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> I must say I am not as up to date on this stuff, but it used to make 
> the cgi and HTML files, then I would run indexmaker to merge the HTML 
> into one file etc.  I am on a windows server platform.  I can make the 
> cgi files myself but the perl cfgmaker used to build them for me or I 
> thought they did. I also used to see the cfgmaker run in the cmd 
> window, but it doesn't now so I may have broke something.  Or am I 
> completely bonkers on this? 
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> *From:* Lyle Giese [mailto:lyle at lcrcomputer.net]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 20, 2010 9:45 AM
> *To:* Jensen, Mark
> *Subject:* Re: [mrtg] Issue with cfgmaker
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> Jensen, Mark wrote:
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> When I run the perl cfgmaker public at 10.1.xxx.xxx 
> <mailto:public at 10.1.xxx.xxx> --global "WorkDir: c:\mrtghtml" --output 
> filename.cfg, it runs but I see no output to the screen nor does it 
> build the cgi files, what is wrong with the cfgmaker?  Is there a way 
> to fix this or do I need to re install everything? I am using rrdtool 
> etc.    I sure could use some help on this, thank you.
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> cfgmaker does not make any cgi files.  It creates config files for 
> MRTG to use to query your targets and place the data in the rrd databases.
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> I don't use windows for mrtg, so am not 100% certain on command line 
> format, but try
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> perl -c cfgmaker
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> This will at lest verify that cfgmaker is visible to perl and if it 
> seems to be a valid perl script.
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> In rrd mode, mrtg does not make any html files or graphs.  You need a 
> front end for that.  I recommend routers2 for that purpose.
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> Lyle Giese
> LCR Computer Services, Inc.
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There are two modes to MRTG.  1) native 2)rrd

You stated you are now using rrd databases.  In native mode, yes mrtg 
did more, but using alot more CPU and was therefore limited as to how 
many devices it scan.  In rrd mode, all MRTG does in grab the data and 
put it in databases. Indexmaker was the tool to make your html/cgi files 
in native mode(I think, I use rrd and routers2 now).

Lyle
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