MRTG for Switches - OK why?

Hello again,

After I sent the email below. I figured I would continue my reading

and also go back to how I used BB to see if I could put the pieces together in Hobbit 4.1.2p1. I currently use Debian (Sarge) 3.1 as my platform of choice and needed to add another lib to get things moving. Eventually, I figured out that I needed to use cfgmaker with the appropriate options and switches. Good so far.

I had removed my previous host names from bb-hosts and dropped the

names with the bb command. Waited and cleaned up any residual left of those names in the Hobbit file structure. I commented out the mrtg in hobbitlaunch.cfg before I did the previous steps and finished reading up on cfgmaker. OK, so I decided on what I wanted in cfgmaker and went with the naming convention Henrik provided in his docs. I ran cfgmaker though a script and generated the mrtg.cfg file. Went throught it and mod'd it some more to my liking. Cool so far was what I was thinking.

Now I am ready to put the ip and hostname back in bbhosts and to

wait a few minutes later for the basic columns to appear. I quickly went through the hobbit logs and notice a couple of things like creating directories, yada yada..., then I noticed in the trend column the MRTG graphs were showing up. OK stop I thought.

I didn't uncomment the mrtg in hobbitlaunch.cfg. What gives?

So now I am confused. Why is this happening and what would be the purpose of enabling it in hobbitlaunch if hobbit already does it automatically. I am guessing the RRDtool is automatically picking up that I want stats from mrtg.cfg I just created.

I think this is what I meant when hobbit makes thing alot easier. So does anyone understand what I am describing?

Any discussion on this would help me understand what I am seeing. Thanks in advance

TMC

-----Original Message----- From: Costa, Todd (DMH) Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 4:39 PM To: Hobbit (E-mail) Subject: MRTG for Switches

Hello Hob-sters,

I am wondering were I can find some mrtg cfg examples that will let me track port traffic activity on switches? I recently followed the integrating steps for MRTG data into Hobbit. And I now see MRTG in the trends link which is cool. But I now want to watch by ports and generate graphs per port. Can this still be done? I once did this through BB and I remember it being tricky and cumbersome to do. But so far, everything I have tried with hobbit has gotten easier to deal with. I hope its the same with what I am asking now. Any help and input is appreciated.

Todd M. Costa Commonwealth of Massachusetts