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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I will be interested in using your scripts. </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>I am a still new to MRTG and base from what I have read i think</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>that will be a good idea of setup in our network.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>If that is not a problem.....</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Ramil Montallana</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>NetZero - Operations Engineer</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>ramilm@netzero.net</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Repucci, John (STP) [<A HREF="mailto:john.repucci@guidant.com">mailto:john.repucci@guidant.com</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 5:56 AM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: 'Alf Hardy'; 'mrtg@list.ee.ethz.ch'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: [mrtg] MRTG config / mgmt wrapper</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>1) Separate all of your devices into groups ( I call them regions - could be</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>device types, divisions, continents, states, etc... ). I suggest only 5</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>regions, primarily so that each region can have a separate crontab entry (</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>one each minute ) ( I have 8 regions, but some of them are very small and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>are set to cron at the same time. )</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>2) create sub-directories for each region and modify your MRTG config file</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>to point to the appropriate working directory. ( remember to move the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>existing files into the new working directories.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>3) Create an index.html or defualt.html front page with a table / cell or</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>each region. Edit the source code and insert a html comment in each cell</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>specific to each region. ( ie: <!-- Region1 Add Here --> ). This front</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>page could be broken down into sub-pages as desired.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>4) Write a wrapper around the MRTG config file / process which collects new</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>device info, creates the new config, inserts it into the appropriate config</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>file, and edits the index.html file to insert a link to the new devices html</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>page in its appropriate working directory.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I have done the above and have a menu driven shell script / Perl program</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>combination which allows me to refresh the devices in a region and to add a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>new device to a region. I still have to add some error checking and add a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>delete device section. If there is a good deal of interest, I can make this</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>set of scripts available. Note that my solution is unix-centric and may not</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>be general-purpose enough for all solutions.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hope this helps.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>John Repucci</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Guidant Corp.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> -----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> From: Alf Hardy [SMTP:Alf.Hardy@computershare.co.uk]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 5:45 AM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> To: mrtg@list.ee.ethz.ch</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Subject: [mrtg] MRTG-2.7.5 on Nt4.0 SP 3</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Hello all,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> I am using MRTG successfully to monitor a number of Routers. I am using</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> indexmaker to generate a web page with the relevant router interface</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> index. </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> However, I would like to be able to modify MRTG in such a way that it will</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> list the Routers by name, then have links to their respective interfaces</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> when you click on the router description. By doing this the top level</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> (effectively) web page would have router descriptions only and subsequent</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> links would point to a web page with all the interfaces listed for each</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> router.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> At present I have hundreds of entries on a single web page which is</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> ungainly.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> I am a novice with MRTG at present so any help would be greatly</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> appreciated.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Regards</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Alf</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
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