Steve and Tobi,
 
This is rather odd.  I have upgraded to 2.16, but yet it still passes the 
$ARGV[0] parameter in lower case letters.  Is there somewhere in a config file 
or script that I can modify how it pulls this data?  Thanks for the template 
links.
 
Andy

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From: Steve Shipway [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tue 12/22/2009 3:46 PM
To: Andy Nieberding
Subject: RE: routers2 cgi



2.14 is fairly old, it would be good to go up to 2.16 as you'll get a lot of 
bug fixes and an improved Threshold interface (it passes 5 parameters in 2.16). 
 Should be a straight replacement.  You'll also get the latest cfgmaker which 
has much better template support and will be able to use all the cfgmaker 
templates in the library at http://www.steveshipway.org/cfgmaker

Steve

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From: Andy Nieberding [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, 23 December 2009 9:32 a.m.
To: Steve Shipway
Subject: RE: routers2 cgi

Thanks for the quick response.  I'm currently using 2.14.5-2.  I'll definitely 
try to upgrade first, and if that doesnt help, I'll post the query.  Thanks for 
the workaround!

Andy

________________________________

From: Steve Shipway [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tue 12/22/2009 2:25 PM
To: Andy Nieberding
Subject: RE: routers2 cgi



Can you tell me which version of MRTG you are using?

This sounds like it may be a bug - the parameter passed should be the MRTG 
Target name, which would be capitalised in the file (and relates to the created 
PNG files and so on).  However it sounds as if what you are getting is in fact 
the RRD file name stub (which is always lower cased and has certain punctuation 
characters removed).  This may well be a bug in MRTG that we need to let Tobi 
know of.

If you've not yet upgraded to MRTG 2.16.2 (the latest) then try that first; 
Tobi has fixed many small bugs over the years and this may have been fixed 
already.  If you're already on 2.16.2 then post a query on the MRTG mailing 
list ([email protected]) which Tobi reads regularly and hopefully there 
should be a response.

As a workaround, your could use the
SetEnv[XxXx]: MRTG_TARGET="XxXx"
directive to set a standard environment variable separately for your script to 
refer to, although the first parameter is supposed to be the target name 
unmodified.

As a side note, I've never really liked the Thresholding action script 
interface; the passed parameters are too few and miss out key pieces of 
information or have them in owkward format.  Probably more standard environment 
variables should be set; this also applies to data collection plugins which 
have no additional environment set either.  However, at least later versions of 
MRTG (2.16.x) pass sufficient parameters to the script to get most of what you 
need.

Steve

________________________________________
From: Andy Nieberding [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, 23 December 2009 3:28 a.m.
To: [email protected]
Cc: Steve Shipway
Subject: routers2 cgi

Steve,

I first would like to say that your routers cgi script rocks!  It really makes 
things more visually appealing and provides more detail about the status of a 
device.  My question is, when a threshold is broken, I call a perl script from 
the MRTG cfg files.  It then passes three arguments to my perl script: 1. name 
of the device, lets use 192.168.100.254_gigabitethernet1_0_1, 2: the current 
value of the parameter, 3: the threshold level.  When it passes the device 
name, it isnt capitalized.  The PNG files your CGI creates is capitalized 
(which should be the way that it is because they are capitalized in my MRTG cfg 
files).  Why is MRTG not copying the exact string value for the device name 
parameter?

Thank you so much for any insight you may have.

Sincerely,
Andy Nieberding 

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