Mrtg guide pdf

Liberallly minded operating systems support a commandline length approaching characters. In such environments it was an easy matter to pass the sometimes high number of parameters used by MRTG's Rateup executable directly on the commandline.

Until NetWare 6. This limitation was also removed for NetWare 6. For other NetWare versions and earlier Service Packs, this limitation remains. To permit a 'standard' interface for NetWare, the Rateup executable has been modified to also read its parameters from a file, and the MRTG script has been modified to support this method on a NetWare platform.

See New Rateup Switch. A Rateup NLM is now available, along with the necessary scripts to build it if required. See the NetWare Support section of this document for further details. Additionally, mrtg. The absence of a specific installation procedure has caused MRTG to fail in the past because the Perl script could not find or load the Rateup executable.

Make sure that the ImagePath variable is correctly pointing to srvany. Under Parameters make sure that all the Application variables are setup properly. At this point you are ready to run the service. After you do this, you should see two new processes running on your system: srvany. Make sure to stop any previously running MRTG processes to avoid conflict. Note that it is imperative to set the RunAsDaemon: yes option or the service will stop after just one single run!

Now lets look at a config file to monitor what we wanted to on our mythical Cisco Cat -- utilization on ports 3, 5, 10, and 24, and the CPU Load, which will show us nonstandard mrtg configurations as well as more options.. Once again, for an explanation of the more advance features of mrtg, please see the rest of the documentation. Skip to content. Star Permalink master. Branches Tags. Could not load branches. Could not load tags. Raw Blame.

Open with Desktop View raw View blame. Next Install Perl on the same Windows machine. RunAsDaemon: yes. Windows Registry Editor Version 5. You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You signed out in another tab or window. Take an opportunity to gather the following information:.

Finally you need to know the read-only SNMP community string for your device. If you don't know it, try public , that is the default. For the rest of this document we will be using device We are interested in monitoring traffic, and the CPU load. Let's begin. The first thing we do in setting up MRTG is making a default config file. Type the following command:. This creates an initial MRTG config file for you. Note that in this file all interfaces of your router will be stored by number.

Unfortunately, these numbers are likely to change whenever you reconfigure your router. In order to work around this you can get cfgmaker to produce a configuration which is based on Ip numbers, or even Interface Descriptions. Check cfgmaker. If you get an error message complaining about no such name or no response , your community name is probably wrong.

This is the interface speed Default is 10 megabits; for Mbit devices use and so on And that's a very basic MRTG config file. It is normal to get errors for the first two times you run this command.