I use MRTG and Hobbit to monitor routers and switches. My config basically is a follows:
- bbmrtg.sh runs on a host that collects all of our bandwidth information.
- bbmrtg.sh sends the information to Hobbit.
- Hobbit displays it as a mrtg column similar to the way that it used to work in Big Brother.
I have reconfigured bbmrtg.sh to work with the 14all.cgi application instead of the original configuration as 14all.cgi allowed me to display performance in a per-minute graph as opposed to the 5 minute graph that was originally displayed.
The mrtg column shows a 6 hour bandwidth view and still alerts based on the pre-defined thresholds. If there is a particular host that I want to represent the bandwidth for then I just add that port to the bbmrtg.sh configuration file.
If I could get Hobbit to display graphs on finer detail for bandwidth then I would likely move things off of the mrtg host that I am using now, but I just haven't given it a good look.
The other main reason that I like bbmrtg.sh is that I don't have to mess with any of my mrtg configuration files. From what I have seen in other configurations I have to go into the mrtg files and edit them individually before Hobbit would recognize them. I could be wrong on this, but that is what I recall.
I have left things this way as opposed to moving them into the trends section of Hobbit as I prefer to have 1 minute averages versus the 5 minute ones as it is a little easier to spot problem situations when there is greater granularity in the graph.
Robert Taylor | Senior Manager of Information Systems | Hendrick Automotive Group
-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Stuart [mailto:jeff at myinternetservices.com] Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 9:15 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit + MRTG
Hmm ok thx... looks like this'll be my next big project. ;) (Last one was to integrate hobbit with our server provisioning system/database. IE adds/deletes add and delete hosts in hobbit via a couple of perl scripts.)
On Sunday 21 May 2006 5:41 am, Sue Bauer-Lee wrote:
I'd still really like to see a successful configuration that monitors Cisco routers and switches.
I've yet to be able to display the graphs for the few with successful data collection; most of them fail and we're fairly certain it has nothing to do with ACLs.
I was able to collect data for, which are few, and mo
-- Jeff Stuart Network Admin MyInternetServices.com 1-800-300-HOST
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