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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'>Routers2 assumes one file per device; so unless
you specify the Device name using<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> routers.cgi*ShortName: Menu name<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>then it will default to choosing the
device name as in one of the Targets. You have 4 different hosts in the
targets so it is picking a different one; just ass the cfgmaker directive<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> --global=”routers.cgi*ShortName:
BLSWR5E3”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>and you’ll get this name in the
Devices menu instead.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Another way to do this with Routers2 is to
create a separate file per device, but then make a separate cfg file that uses ‘Include:’
to include all of them (but this file is not run via MRTG). You can then
view devices either individually or via the combined virtual device.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Steve<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
Mersberger, Robert [mailto:robert.mersberger@goldenliving.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, 28 August 2009 3:41
a.m.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Steve
Shipway</st1:PersonName>; <st1:PersonName w:st="on">mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Using cfgmaker with
template and multiple targets on NT</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>I have a c7000 blade server enclosure with
6 3020 switches that I would like to monitor with one config file.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>I thought I read somewhere that this could
be done using cfgmaker with multiple targets defined so I tried this with the
following definitions</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>perl c:\mrtg-2.16.2\bin\cfgmaker
--host-template=cisco.htp --snmp-options=:::::1 --community=mybusy --ifref=name
--show-op-down --global="Workdir: c:\Progra~1\RRDtool\rrd_data"
--global="PathAdd: c:\Progra~1\RRDtool" --global="LogFormat:
rrdtool" --global="routers.cgi*Options[_]: scaled"
--global="Options[_]: bits,growright"
--output="c:\mrtg_setup\configs\BLSWR5E3A1.cfg" BLSWR5E3A1 BLSWR5E3B2
BLSWR5e3A5 BLSWR5E3b6</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>This runs and builds a cfg file
BLSWR5E3A1.cfg but it shows up in mrtg (using rrdtools and routers2.cgi) as
BLSWR5E3b6 under devices.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>All information is displayed and monitored
but why is the device name wrong and how can I correct it.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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