cfgmaker generated the mrtg.cfg with all the interfaces on the switch. A little tweaking got it generating graphs correctly. The labels on each graph look mostly correct (i.e. .fa0_0_0 inbound and .fa0_0_0) {the . in front of the label name is why I say mostly correct, I don't really care much about that} so that is all good.

Here's the question.

The fa0_0_0 is useful for my network guy, but doesn't mean anything to me. Looking at the mrtg.cfg I see it has in it the info that would be useful to me. Here is a snippet (question below snippet)

Title[mrtg.Fa0_0_0]: Traffic Analysis for Fa0/0/0 -- RPCFIR1 PageTop[mrtg.Fa0_0_0]: <H1>Traffic Analysis for Fa0/0/0 -- RPCFIR1</H1> <TABLE> <TR><TD>System:</TD> <TD>RPCFIR1 in </TD></TR> <TR><TD>Maintainer:</TD> <TD></TD></TR> <TR><TD>Description:</TD><TD>FastEthernet0/0/0 OA Link Subnet15 </TD></TR> <TR><TD>ifType:</TD> <TD>ethernetCsmacd (6)</TD></TR> <TR><TD>ifName:</TD> <TD>Fa0/0/0</TD></TR> <TR><TD>Max Speed:</TD> <TD>12.5 MBytes/s</TD></TR> <TR><TD>Ip:</TD> <TD>167.76.15.2 ()</TD></TR> </TABLE>

Hello,

New to the list, this "reply" won't show up correctly in the archives. oh well.

What in this snippet is useful to you? I'm assuming it's "FastEthernet0/0/0 OA Link Subnet15", correct? MRTG creates these using cfgmaker. The man page of cfgmaker shows to use the "--ifref=SOMETHING" command to use other things as the description of the interface. You probably want:

cfgmaker --ifref=descr public at 1.2.3.4

--Chris