Cheshire Cat Computing

wondering if this can be done....

we have a >150 windows servers that we are monitoring. Each has between 10 and 15 different stats being graphed. so, the wwwroot directory looks like this;

c:\mrtg\wwwroot\servers\BES1
c:\mrtg\wwwroot\servers\AD2
c:\mrtg\wwwroot\servers\SQL3....etc.

each individual server directory contains the rrd files. However, the png graph files for all the servers exist in the c:\mrtg\wwwroot\servers directory.

question is, how can I store the png in the appropriate server folder, along with it's rrd file? In other words, server1 directory has all the files associated with server1.


Example
BES1.cfg

WorkDir: C:\mrtg\wwwroot\servers\BES1
RunAsDaemon: yes
IconDir: C:\mrtg\wwwroot\rrdicons
### Global Defaults
PathAdd: c:\mrtg\rrdtool
LogFormat: rrdtool



I have set the router2.cgi.conf file to

[routers.cgi]
graphpath = C:\mrtg\wwwroot\servers
graphurl = /servers
confpath = c:/mrtg/mrtg/bin
cfgfiles = *.cfg
iconurl = /rrdicons/
#




Thanx in advance!!!

The short answer is that you cannot.

routers2 expects to have the graphdir all to itself for temporary storage of the .png files, so it should not really matter what goes in there. All the .png temporary files are created with huge names summarising the cfg file, target, and display options and you should probably have a periodic job to delete old files from this directory, if possible. It looks as if in your system you have put the graphpath into the root of your cfgpath for some reason, and using the same place as your RRDpath (workdir) root! This might get a bit confusing, not to mention the security implications of running it this way (people can get hold of your .cfg files (very insecure) or your .rrd files (insecure if you use different levels of access).

Why not have your .cfg files under one directory (outside of wwwroot), and your workdir (RRDPath) in another directory (outside of wwwroot) and your graphpath under wwwroot/graphs ? This is the way we do it here.

Steve

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
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