Cheshire Cat Computing

I found a solution to my problem now (Linux):
Let's say there are rrds in the directories /www/usa/ny and /www/gb/lnd.
I changed the WorkDir: to /www in the cfg-files. Then I added a Directory[<target>]: usa/ny for every target in the /cfg/usa/ny.cfg and Directory[<target>]: gb/lnd in the /cfg/gb/lnd.cfg.

I tried to use Directory[_]: and it worked fine with mrtg, but routers.cfg didn't find the rrds anymore.

Ok. Then I tried to use rrdextend.pl. And it didn't work. So I added the Directory[_]: again and added these lines after line 51 in rrdextended.pl:

/^\s*Directory\[_\]\s*:\s*(\S+)/i && do {
$rrdpath .= $1; $rrdpath =~ s/[\\\/\s]+$//; $rrdpath .= $pathsep;
next;
};

BTW: fork works well under Linux.

Regards
Bernhard

Yes, rrdextend.pl doesnt support Directory[], and also routers2.cgi doesnt support Directory[_]. Unfortunately this is all down to the way it parses the .cfg files... The whole script really needs a rewrite of the parsing routines in order to make the line sequence and defaults work as with MRTG. Hopefully at least I can get Directory[_] to work in v2.15.

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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

to the fork thin in w2k:
w2k does not support forking, but you can work around that by having multiple mrtg services running.

this will spread the load much better than a single mrtg process does and also you can get a better processor usage on multiprocessor machines.

in my example i use 6 master-configs with 6 processes.
with firedaemon i assigned 2 processes to each processor of my 4 processor machine, leaving one processor free of mrtg for emergency.
this really sped up data collection by mrtg in comparison to just having one cfg.

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<B>John E. Rumball</B>
Sudbury Regional Hospital

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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

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<B>John E. Rumball</B>
Sudbury Regional Hospital