Hi Mike If you can manage such big cfg file it is no problem for MRTG having a big cfg file. However I agree that for such number of servers it is best to group servers in some way (HTTP, SMTP, FTP, APPS, Domain, etc.) that will make it easy to maintain and troubleshoot.
What you can do is, once you have your multiple cfg, use the indexmaker script to generate an index page for each group of servers and then you can create another page as index of index pages. About running several mrtg cfg files, I use the 5mrtg.exe util found under the contrib dir of mrtg. It is a simple service that executes, at 5 minutes interval, the file mrtgkick.cmd. You can edit this file in order to add all the entries you need for your CFG files. Just verify the paths on the 5mrtg.reg files. This is the mrtgkick.cmd file I use: REM MRTG Config Files REM ================= REM C:\Perl\Bin\perl C:\mrtg-2.10.5\bin\mrtg c:\mrtg-2.10.5\bin\cfg\mrtg_mexico_w2k.cfg C:\Perl\Bin\perl C:\mrtg-2.10.5\bin\mrtg c:\mrtg-2.10.5\bin\cfg\mrtg_smtp.cfg C:\Perl\Bin\perl C:\mrtg-2.10.5\bin\mrtg c:\mrtg-2.10.5\bin\cfg\mrtg_http.cfg REM RRDTool Config Files REM ==================== REM C:\Perl\Bin\perl C:\mrtg-2.10.5\bin\mrtg c:\mrtg-2.10.5\bin\cfg\mrtg_mexico_W2K_RRD.cfg C:\Perl\Bin\perl C:\mrtg-2.10.5\bin\mrtg c:\mrtg-2.10.5\bin\cfg\ispgateway_rrd.cfg C:\Perl\Bin\perl C:\mrtg-2.10.5\bin\mrtg c:\mrtg-2.10.5\bin\cfg\homeserver_rrd.cfg C:\Perl\Bin\perl C:\mrtg-2.10.5\bin\mrtg c:\mrtg-2.10.5\bin\cfg\DrMateo_rrd.cfg C:\Perl\Bin\perl C:\mrtg-2.10.5\bin\mrtg c:\mrtg-2.10.5\bin\cfg\switch_3300_rrd.cfg C:\Perl\Bin\perl C:\mrtg-2.10.5\bin\mrtg c:\mrtg-2.10.5\bin\cfg\cisco4500_rrd.cfg If you insist on using the fire daemon, see the botom of http://www.firedaemon.com/HOWTO/MRTG/ it has some words about running several mrtg cfg files... not really clear. Regards Alvaro -----Original Message----- From: Mike Bollman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jueves, 16 de Octubre de 2003 15:02 To: [email protected] Subject: [rrd-users] RRD on Win2k, multiple config files I have MRTG running with RRD on a Windows 2000 server. I am using the Fire Daemon service manager to call my config file (mrtg rrdconfig.cfg). I am using this to pull snmp data (i..e cpu use, memory, etc) from multiple servers. The question I have is how can I go about grouping all the parameters for one server together. Right now my MRTG homepage is mess as I have one giant config file. I spoke to a friend about this and he said to break each server into its own config file and then call them individually. Would this work? Is there a better way? If that is the case and I have say 100 servers to monitor then I would have 100 config files. Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks in advance. Mike Bollman Network Engineer Enterprise Products [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
