mrtg cfgmaker

[Steve_617]

Hi all

I am a bit out of my depth here.
I have installed mrtg and it workd well.

I would like to now add discards and errors to my graph.
I would also like to create a graph that would log server cpu util, but have no clue where to start.

From what I can see it seems the cfgmaker creates the config files.
Does anyone have a cfgmaker util, that I can use or can anyone show me how to modify the existing one so I can do the above


Regards
Steve

[Ivan Ferreira]

Check this link:

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch23_:_Advanced_MRTG_for_Linux

[Ivan Ferreira]

Also, you can use External Monitoring Scripts if you don't want to use SNMP, or the data is not available through SNMP:

See "External Monitoring Scripts" here:

http://dingetje.homeip.net/mrtg/howto.html
http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/doc/mrtg-reference.en.html

[Steve_617]

I am still a bit lost.

I went to http://dingetje.homeip.net/mrtg/howto.html, however he tells me to add this to my cfg file.

Target[ping_yh]: `/mnt/router/packages/mrtg-2/bin/ping.sh www.yahoo.com`
MaxBytes[ping_yh]: 100000
YLegend[ping_yh]: ms
Legend1[ping_yh]: .
Legend2[ping_yh]: .
Legend3[ping_yh]: .
Legend4[ping_yh]: .
LegendI[ping_yh]: Min.roundtrip:
LegendO[ping_yh]: Max.roundtrip:
ShortLegend[ping_yh]: ms (x 10)
Title[ping_yh]: ping test www.yahoo.com
Options[ping_yh]: growright, gauge, nopercent, integer, unknaszero
Colours[ping_yh]: GREEN#00eb0c,BLUE#0000ff,GRAY#AAAAAA,VIOLET#ff00ff
WithPeak[ping_yh]: ymw
PageTop[ping_yh]:

ping test www.yahoo.com

However do I cut anything out of my cfg file or do I just paste this at the bottom of my cfg file.

It seems a bit confusing to me!

Is there no cfgmaker designed for cpu or discards,,,etc

Regartds

[Florian Heigl (new acc)]

I don't know a version of cfgmaker that handles anything more than traffic data.

Maybe You want to try out cacti, it seems to be more easily configurable, You'll need to supply the correct OID and - I think a metric and from that point on You're done.

I only did a basic setup once, but compared to mrtg it was extremely easy to set up.

[Steve_617]

Thanks for your assistance