MRTG

MRTG is included in RHEL4; if want to install separately do following:

 create user 'mrtg' with private group 'mrtg'
 mkdir /www/mrtg2.15.0
 chown mrtg.mrtg /www/mrtg2.15.0
 cd /usr/local/src
 chown mrtg.mrtg mrtg-2.15.0
 cd mrtg-2.15.0
 ./configure --prefix=/www/mrtg2.15.0
 make
 make install

Add MRTG-related part to apache config file /www/apache2.2.3/conf/httpd.conf:

 Alias /mrtg "/www/mrtg2.15.0/share"
 <Directory "/www/mrtg2.15.0/share">
   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
 </Directory>

NOTE: temporary fix in:

 ERROR: CFG Error in "Interval": should be at least 5 Minutes (unless you use rrdtool)
 at /misc/clonweb/mrtg2.15.0/bin/../lib/mrtg2/MRTG_lib.pm line 772.

MRTG can be started by following command (do not start it yet !):

 env LANG=C /www/mrtg2.15.0/bin/mrtg /www/mrtg2.15.0/etc/mrtg.cfg

Copy contrib/mrtg-startup-script/mrtg to /etc/init.d/ and correct as following (do not forget to make unique second and third number after chkconfig):

 # chkconfig:    345 91 33
 # config:       /www/mrtg2.15.0/etc/mrtg.cfg
 MRTG="/www/mrtg2.15.0/bin/mrtg"
 CONFIG="/www/mrtg2.15.0/etc/mrtg.cfg"

Following commands can be used from now on (do not start it yet !):

 /etc/init.d/mrtg start
 /etc/init.d/mrtg stop
 /etc/init.d/mrtg restart

Add 'mrtg' to the list of services to be started at boot time (enable level 5 only):

 chkconfig --add mrtg
 chkconfig --level 3 mrtg off
 chkconfig --level 4 mrtg off
 chkconfig --list mrtg

Copy/create config files (was copied from clasweb-bck):

 cd /www/mrtg2.15.0
 mkdir etc
 cd /www/mrtg2.15.0/etc
 scp clasweb-bck:/etc/mrtg/"*" .

Create 'web' directories:

 cd /www/mrtg2.15.0/share
 mkdir htmls
 mkdir images
 mkdir logs

Create desired index.html in /www/mrtg2.15.0/share, it will be used by browser if 'http://clonweb/mrtg/' URL typed; it was actually copied from clasweb-bck and adjusted:

 scp clasweb-bck:/var/www/html/mrtg.html .
 mv mrtg.html index.html
 emacs index.html

Copy old stuff from previous htmls/*, images/* and logs/* on clasweb-bck; it will preserve history: 'logs/*.log' contains recent history, while images/*.png contains longer history

 cd htmls
 scp clasweb-bck:/var/www/html/mrtg/Hall-B/htmls/* .
 cd ../images
 scp clasweb-bck:/var/www/html/mrtg/Hall-B/images/* .
 cd ../logs
 scp clasweb-bck:/var/www/html/mrtg/Hall-B/logs/* .

Start MRTG rigth the way to avoid interrupts in history:

 /etc/init.d/mrtg start

Cron job:

 [root@clasweb-bck etc]# ll */mrtg
 -rw-r--r--    1 root     root           54 Feb 15  2005 cron.d/mrtg
 -rwxr-xr-x    1 vvsap    clas         1140 Mar  2  2005 init.d/mrtg
 [root@clasweb-bck etc]# more  cron.d/mrtg
 #0-59/5 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg

Configuration:

 #example
 #cfgmaker --global 'WorkDir: /home/httpd/mrtg'  \
 #         --global 'Options[_]: bits,growright' \
 #         --output /home/mrtg/cfg/mrtg.cfg    \
 #          community@router.abc.xyz

 DOES NOT WORK YET ...
 /www/mrtg2.15.0/bin/cfgmaker --global 'WorkDir: /www/mrtg2.15.0/etc'  \
        --global 'Options[_]: bits,growright' \
        --output /www/mrtg2.15.0/etc/mrtg.cfg \
        mrtg@clonweb.jlab.org
 DOES NOT WORK YET ...

My current understanding about configuration:

 etc/mrtg.cfg - main config file, includes *.inc files
 etc/*.inc - hardware-specific config files
 share/index.html - main hadn-made html file, includes references to secondary hand-made html files in share/htmls
 share/htmls/*.html - hand-made and mrtg-generated html files
 share/images/*.png (and *.gif ?) - mrtg-generated monthly, dayly and yearly files
 share/logs/*.log and *.old - mrtg-generated current files

There is 'almost' automatic procedure to generate hand-made *.html files:

 /www/mrtg2.15.0/bin/indexmaker /www/mrtg2.15.0/etc/mrtg.cfg -output=/www/mrtg2.15.0/share/htmls/MRTG.html

Then split MRTG.html on desired number of smaller files.