[121522] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Enhancing automation with network growth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Thu Jan 21 18:39:19 2010
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:38:29 -0600
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20100121222941.GF31732@hezmatt.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1/21/2010 4:29 PM, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:52:39PM -0500, Erik L wrote:
>>> One thing that would take a major load off would be if my MRTG system
>>> could simply update its config/index files for itself, instead of me
>>> having to do it on each and every port change.
>>>
>>> Can anyone offer up ideas on how you manage any automation in this
>>> regard for their infrastructure gear traffic graphs?
>>> (Commercial options
>>> welcome, off-list, but we're as small as our budget is).
>>
>> Not sure how you're doing your graphs currently, but have you considered Cacti?
>
> If automating MRTG config is hard, automating Cacti config is about as close
> to "impossible" as one can get without popping around to the Augean stables.
It has been a while, and I have not been following this thread, but once
upon a time I had Korn scripts that read (SNMP) devices found and
generated MRTG scripts for what it found.
Sure enough, I had to go into each one and clean up names and stuff, and
occasionally to discard some of what the automaton had created.
If I can do that, it seems like anybody can.
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