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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The way we achieve this is for the network
admins to put the connected host name into the port description on the
switches. Then, cfgmaker pulls out the port description which is placed in the
Target definition for the link names and titles and so on. It also allows our
snazzy config tool to parse through the links and putt Routers2 crosslinks
between the Targets to link the port graphs and the host graphs, but you’d
have to take care of that yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
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font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext'> mrtg-bounces@lists.oetiker.ch
[mailto:mrtg-bounces@lists.oetiker.ch] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Lyle Giese<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 5 August 2008 08:58<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Rodge Stumbaugh wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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</xml><![endif]-->I am new to mrtg. The previous network admin setup a network
bandwidth monitoring application using mrtg and I noticed that most of the
,monitoring is through the switch port that the servers are connected to..is
this the best practice? Also, if I want to make changes to correct where I see
that several servers are no longer in service and some servers have been
assigned to different ports than what is set up in mrtg, is it easier to change
the inc files and the html for the monitoring site or is it better to
accomplish this through the config maker?<o:p></o:p></span></font><u5:p></u5:p></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font><u5:p></u5:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Rodge<o:p></o:p></span></font><u5:p></u5:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Config
maker will setup monitoring for the ports on the switch, but it won't have a
clue as to what is attached to which port on the switch. You need to hand
edit the files made by config maker for that information. <br>
<br>
Includes are better than one big mrtg.cfg file, esp if you grow and decide to
use routers2cgi and rrd later.<br>
<br>
Lyle Giese<br>
LCR Computer Services, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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