Hello Seteve, I have configured the same tool as capacity and network monitoring of our intercities and DSL network and IPLC. No dout its an excellent tool to find out the utilization of ur links and plan upgradation of links accordinly. I am using it with PHP and in config file i have to define the refreshing interval. well in perl u have to define it in cron file thats correct. On backend i am using the RRD asl well . Well i actually found a software to eidt graphically the conf file of weathermap and adding nodes and defining links but that was for php i am not sure that works with perl or not. Well i recommend this tool as an excellent network utilization monitoring. Regards, Waqqas Steve Shipway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, all.
I've been playing with the Network Weathermap tool found at http://wotsit.thingy.com/haj/cacti/php-weathermap/ Is anyone else using this, or something similar? Although it claims to be for cacti, it actually will work rather nicely with MRTG, provided you have a .rrd backend and a frontend that can generate popup graphs, such as routers2.cgi. The drawback is that you need to run the map generation via cron or similar because it does not generate it on-demand - however this is a relatively low CPU load. Using this, you can get dynamic colour changes and graphs to show network health, very popular with our networking guys. If you want to configure it with MRTG/RRD/routers2 then you need to use configurations like: ---snip--- NODE cfgfile.cfg POSITION 300 400 LABEL My Router INFOURL /cgi-bin/routers2.cgi?rtr=cfgfile.cfg&if=__none LINK targetname NODES cfgfile.cfg othercfgfile.cfg INFOURL /cgi-bin/routers2.cgi?rtr=cfgfile.cfg&if=targetname TARGET /path/to/rrd/files/targetname.rrd:ds0:ds1 OVERLIBGRAPH /cgi-bin/routers2.cgi?rtr=cfgfile.cfg&if=targetname&xgtype=ds&xgstyle=x& page=image BANDWIDTH 1G ---snip--- of course changing the cfgfile.cfg and targetname parameters, and the /path/to/rrd/files as necessary. There's no reason why you should not be able to do similar with other frontends like mrtg-rrd as well. Note that you need to install the RRD-PHP interface on the server for this to work, though. I'm currently working on a Perl/Tk script for dynamically editing the config file and automatically inserting all these details. If anyone is interested in trying this out or having a play with the beta map editor then please let me know. Steve -- Steve Shipway ITSS, University of Auckland (09) 3737 599 x 86487 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
