On 23/03/07, Stuart Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi amos, > > i'm out of ideas on why your Target line doesn't work :( > > MRTG has a templating facility ... i haven't used it, however, so i > don't have any brilliant insights to offer
Can you be more specific about what you refer to as "templating facility"? I've been through mrtg-reference a few times over the last month and can't find anything which suggest such an ability. Right now my hope is either to find something on sourceforge/freshmeat (which so far failed) or maybe go with something based on m4. > > i, too, became tired of cutting & pasting all those lines into my config > files ... so i wrote code to do it for me (see > http://www.skendric.com/trend/graphs/mrtg-net-snmpd.pdf for the > results). i add hostnames to a text file now, and every night, a cron > job reads that file, rebuilds the relevant mrtg config file, and life is > sweet. the code is available off SourceForge (the 'Netops toolkit') or > directly from http://www.skendric.com/device/ Thanks for the pointer. It helps when you want a specific number of variables for each type of host, but if I have to set my own counters (e.g. monitoring in-house software) then it still won't help me in copying/pasting configuration for each specific instance. With Nagios2, for instance, I can just describe how to monitor a "ping host" and then just spcify "host a.b.c.d is a ping host" without actually having to copy and tweak the entire "ping host is monitored that way" Cheers, --Amos _______________________________________________ mrtg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg
