Cheshire Cat Computing

Hi Steve,

Been trying to use the templates, within this topic, I have a question, where do you put the .tp and .htp files. I can't see anything in the cfgmaker file that tells it where the .htp and .tp file are located or am I missing something....

Cheers

Tim

There's no specific place to put them - either specify the full path name in the command line, or else put them into the current directory.

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11

HI Steve,

OK thanks for the info, I am getting there.

I have manged to get the cfgmaker to look at the .tp and .htp files, but I am getting the below errors, I am using the host-generic.htp file.

ERROR Evaluation of the contents in the file

/mrtg/mrtg/bin/host-generic.htp
gave the error

"Global symbol "$v3opt" requires explicit package name at (eval 4) line 26, <IF_TEMPLATE> line 339.
Global symbol "$v3opt" requires explicit package name at (eval 4) line 94, <IF_TEMPLATE> line 339.
Global symbol "$v3opt" requires explicit package name at (eval 4) line 95, <IF_TEMPLATE> line 339.
Global symbol "$v3opt" requires explicit package name at (eval 4) line 242, <IF_TEMPLATE> line 339.
Global symbol "$v3opt" requires explicit package name at (eval 4) line 243, <IF_TEMPLATE> line 339.
Global symbol "$v3opt" requires explicit package name at (eval 4) line 275, <IF_TEMPLATE> line 339.
Global symbol "$v3opt" requires explicit package name at (eval 4) line 303, <IF_TEMPLATE> line 339.
"

Not sure ig they may make differance or using the .tp and .htp file wil work, I have installed the bundled MRTG package, currently using 2.20beta4, I am adding the --host-template command into the line in the updateshellscript.sh file that the Update_MyRouter calls when it is run.

Will this work in this way or do I need to run this in a differant way..

Thanks for the help

Tim

I think you need to upgrade your MRTG and get the later version of cfgmaker. Earlier versions did not pass snmpv3 options down to the templates (if you had defined them) and so the symbol was not defined. Make sure you have MRTG 2.16.1 or later.

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the info, I was using v2.9.x, it was part of the bundled installer I used. So tried to update it but did not work very well. So I have binned that one and build a new MRTG install followig your book and online resource. All worked out, the host-generic.htp now works OK and I have better understanding of the way MRTG is setup.

Got an issue with one of the templates I have down load for ACE but will post error I am getting in that post.

Thanks

Tim

Thanks for a great template!

I made some modifications to the file:

1) My version of mrtg would bail out unless the PageTop lines had H1 html-tags.
2) I added the option growright to all graphs, this was to make it look good together with the script host_create_page.sh which I also include.
3) I added the option noo to some graphs to avoid dummy "out"-graphs.
4) I multiplied maxreal and maxswap with 1024 to get the right values.

With these modifications the template works fine for me, but I have only tested it on Linux.

I use the template with the script host_create_page.sh to create a directory for each host. Depending on your snmp configuration you might want to change the snmp community to something else than "public".

I also have a very simple script which is called by a cron job every 5 minutes, that script only uses a Makefile to update all the mrtg directories.

regards Henrik

Thanks for posting your changes! It looks like your *1024 fix to make the stored value in bytes rather than K is a particularly good one, not sure how I missed this the first time around. Also, the requirement for <h1> in the PageTop I'venot head of before -- which version of MRTG are you using with this check? Possibly it is an older one?

Steve

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11