Oh, I also had a problem with event logging. It's probably been fixed by now, but it caused me to make these changes:
There is an error in the MRTG code somewhere regarding logging to the Windows Event Log, which caused MRTG errors when I tried to run it. Changed my command line for testing to this: perl c:\mrtg\bin\mrtg --logging=c:\mrtg\bin\log\log.txt c:\mrtg\bin\mrtg.cfg". (replaced logging=eventlog with logging=path) and it ran. Also had to change the registry from that listed in the procedure to this: "AppParameters"="c:\\mrtg\\bin\\mrtg --logging= c:\\mrtg\\log\\log.txt c:\\mrtg-2.17.1\\bin\\mrtg.cfg" -----Original Message----- From: John York Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 3:13 PM To: mrtg; '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [mrtg] Assistance See the section, HOW TO SETUP MRTG AS A WINDOWS SERVICE, in http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/doc/mrtg-nt-guide.en.html. I've used it for years and it works great. The "run as daemon" is confusing for windows, since you also have to create a service as described above. John -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel McDonald Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 3:08 PM To: [email protected] Cc: mrtg; [email protected] Subject: Re: [mrtg] Assistance On 9/30/11 11:51 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Daniel, > Thank you for getting back to me so quickly. I believe it is running > as a Daemon but I can't tell for sure? I opened up Task Manager on the server > that it is "supposedly" running on and I could not locate anything in there > related to MRTG. Ah, you are running on Windows. Hopefully someone else on this list understands windows servers - I haven't managed a windows server this millennium... But I recall there were a couple of daemon tools used to run mrtg - fireDaemon was popular about 8 years ago. But I don't know much more about it than a name.. > I guess, we could start with how would I verify that it is > even running if I can't locate anything within Task Manager or in the Services > tab? -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281 _______________________________________________ mrtg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg _______________________________________________ mrtg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg
