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| Author: | itheodoridis [ Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | blank routers2.conf after installation |
Hello my name is Ioannis (greek) and I have been using mrtg for years where I work (it department,networks section in large institution). The number of ports that I am monitoring has increased a lot over the years so the i/o and cpu load of the single server I was using for mrtg had grown too much, so I decided to start taking steps. I first decided to split the load among additional servers which certainly eased things a little. However I am planning for a better solution using rrdtool and creating graphs on demand so as it is natural your book and work caught my attention. I have bought the book in adobe digital form and I am trying to set up the software components in a new system I have setup for experimental purposes before I try to enforce it to the rest of the infrastructure. The system is a virtual server based on vmware esxi 4.1, the guest os is ubuntu server 11.10 64 bit. I m using the latest mrtg compiled from source, also latest rrd compiled from source, I have installed the necessary libraries (cairo, pango, gd lib, zlib, etc7) through ubuntu software center. For routers2 I downloaded the script package available on your website. I have unpacked under /usr/local so the routers 2 dir is /usr/local/routers2, mrtg is located under /usr/local/mrtg-2, configs under /usr/local/mrtg-2/etc, rrdtool is under /opt/rrdtool-1.4.5 . I run install.pl in the routers2 dir and after the installation dialog the script warns me about overwritting the existing configuration file. After I accept and the install terminates succesfully, the routers2 web page reports that it can't find any configuration files for the devices. So I check the routers2.conf file and it's empty. I have done the same process twice and I get the same. I tried modifying the backup config included with the package but I must be missing things because when I do, I'm loosing icons and items from the user interface. Any ideas? Thank you for all the work you have done. Without you, tobi and a few other guys I don't know where network management would be.. Btw I know what you are writing about vm systems and clock skew but I m using ntp here for everything and don't have problems so far, even with heavy loads. My production systems for mrtg run under opensuse 11.x versions, all virtual for the last 2 years, physical before that. Ioannis Theodoridis Network & Systems Engineer |
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| Author: | stevesh [ Mon Nov 28, 2011 9:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: blank routers2.conf after installation |
It is not clear from your post, but did you install to the same location that you unpacked to? You would not normally get an 'overwirte' warning unless you were upgrading a previous install. If so, then the default routers2.conf would try to copy over the top of itself and end up with a blank file. Try unpacking to (eg) /usr/local/src/routers2, then install to /usr/local/routers2 or similar. |
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