[148698] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Polling Bandwidth as an Aggregate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keegan Holley)
Fri Jan 20 10:53:24 2012
In-Reply-To: <20120120154803.GA52070@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
From: Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:52:00 -0500
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Is there a plugin for MRTG that allows you to go back to specific times?
I like MRTG better for this as well but cacti's graphs are much more
flexible.
2012/1/20 Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
> In a message written on Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:36:38AM -0500, Keegan
> Holley wrote:
> > using cacti for this. My last question is if there is any easy/automated
> > way to pull interfaces into cacti and configure graphs for them either
> via
> > SNMP or reading from a mysql DB. I suddenly remember how much I hate
> > importing large routers into cacti and configuring the graphs.
>
> I find using MRTG is easier than Cacti for _automation_ purposes.
> It's configmaker script will generate a config file for a single
> router. I've written about 5 different versions of a small script
> that's basically a customized config maker so the graphs get named
> with customer names or the like. The job can be fully automated
> with a few hours of coding; run it out of Cron to rebuild your interface
> list automatically and you'll never miss a customer turn up because
> someone forgot to configure a graph.
>
> --
> Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440
> PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
>
