[mrtg] problems with cfgmaker and ifdesc=alias

[Steve Shipway]

You can specity multiple methods in the latest cfgmaker, so that alternatives will be used if they exist and the preferred method is blank.  You also do not tell use *what* is being used where you expect the Alias to be used.

Try this:
/usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/cfgmaker --no-down --ifref=ip,name,nr --ifdesc=catname,ppname,alias,descr,ip,name,nr --global "WorkDir: /opt/apache/htdocs/mrtg/switch" --output switch.cfg guessit at 192.168.xxx.yyy<mailto:guessit at 192.168.xxx.yyy>

 Steve

Steve Shipway
University of Auckland ITS
UNIX Systems Design Lead
s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz<mailto:s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz>
Ph: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86487

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From: mrtg-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz at lists.oetiker.ch [mrtg-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz at lists.oetiker.ch] on behalf of Markus Lauterbach [markus.lauterbach at meinestadt.de]
Sent: Friday, 18 March 2011 2:24 a.m.
To: mrtg at lists.oetiker.ch
Subject: [mrtg] problems with cfgmaker and ifdesc=alias

Hi out there,

I'm a recipient of this maillinglist for a few month now. With the announcement of the mrtg-release 2.17.1, I thought, my problem based on cfgmaker and my routers interface alias would be solved. Now, I using mrtg-version 2.17.1 and my problem still exists.

bash-3.00$ /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/cfgmaker --version
cfgmaker for mrtg-2.17.2

I'm using a Cisco SG 300-52 52-port switch, which allows me, to label the interfaces. As you can see, I already did that

snmpwalk -c guessit 192.168.xxx.yyy .1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.18
IF-MIB::ifAlias.49 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.50 = STRING: server01.yourdomain.com
IF-MIB::ifAlias.51 = STRING: server02.yourdomain.com
IF-MIB::ifAlias.52 = STRING: server03.yourdomain.com
IF-MIB::ifAlias.53 = STRING: server04.yourdomain.com
IF-MIB::ifAlias.54 = STRING: server05.yourdomain.com
IF-MIB::ifAlias.55 = STRING: server06.yourdomain.com
IF-MIB::ifAlias.56 = STRING: server07.yourdomain.com
IF-MIB::ifAlias.57 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.58 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.59 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.60 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.61 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.62 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.63 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.64 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.65 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.66 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.67 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.68 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.69 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.70 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.71 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.72 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.73 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.74 = STRING: server08.yourdomain.com
IF-MIB::ifAlias.75 = STRING: server09.yourdomain.com
IF-MIB::ifAlias.76 = STRING: server10.yourdomain.com
IF-MIB::ifAlias.77 = STRING: server11.yourdomain.com
IF-MIB::ifAlias.78 = STRING: server12.yourdomain.com
IF-MIB::ifAlias.79 = STRING: server13.yourdomain.com
IF-MIB::ifAlias.80 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.81 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.82 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.83 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.84 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.85 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.86 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.87 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.88 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.89 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.90 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.91 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.92 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.93 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.94 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.95 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.96 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.97 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.98 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.99 = STRING: uplink
IF-MIB::ifAlias.100 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.1000 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.1001 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.1002 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.1003 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.1004 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.1005 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.1006 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.1007 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.3000 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.100000 = STRING:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.300000 = STRING:

I'm using the cfgmaker with the following command ( /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/cfgmaker --no-down --ifdesc=alias --global "WorkDir: /opt/apache/htdocs/mrtg/switch" --output switch.cfg guessit at 192.168.xxx.yyy<mailto:guessit at 192.168.xxx.yyy>; ), but unfortunately the interface alias isn't used in the cfg-file :(

Is this option tricky to use or I'm not able to see the wood for the trees.

Much thanks in advance

Markus
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