Hi everyone, Sorry to bother you all, but I am having a lot of grief with bbmrtg(dot)pl and it looks like quite a few people who read this list have played with that script so hopefully someone can help me with this.
What I am trying to do is get BigBrother to display data just like on this web page: http://demo.bb4.com/bb/ with the MRTG column. The details: I have a Red Hat 9.0 box running MRTG nicely, I actually ported the MRTG logs over from a Win 2K box and everything looks good as far as MRTG goes, its gathering some nice statistics on a Brocade SAN switch and a Cisco Catalyst 4006 (that's a switch), it is also making some nice graphs which are pretty - good job Toby. :) Now I have installed the RRD tool and moved everything into the RRD format, I also installed 14all, and everything works, albeit now things are really slow when I point a web browser at the MRTG graphs. I am no Perl expert but I keep seeing reference's to mod_perl, is this some Perl library? Do I need to install some more Perl stuff? I have Perl v5.8.0 in there now am I missing something? (Note that I am running the Linux box on a VM, so this issue may in fact not be resolvable short of getting more hardware into the computer room; however if someone has some experience with this I'd like to hear what they did.) Anyway at least the thing works, so this is not the big deal problem. I also have BigBrother installed, and it works. In my big brother host file I list a few servers and it can ping all of them as well as make DNS queries and ftp requests of the relevant machines. But... (the problem description follows): When I try to point BigBrother in the direction of my MRTG config files (one for Brocade and one for the Cat4006) things get ugly. First I configured a copy of $BBHOME/ext/bbmrtg.pl to work with mrtg_Cisco4006.cfg, then I added the following to my bb-bbexttab: localhost : : bbmrtg.pl;60 Then I tried to make a mapping in the $BBHOME/etc/bb-hosts file: <IP addr> cisco4006.FQDN # now initially it worked but then I changed it to: <IP addr> cisco4006.FQDN # BBDISPLAY ssh bbmrtg (I misunderstood some online documentation.) Ever since whenever I remove the cisco entry and re-add it I get something about BB being unable to generate a report on ssh status for the Cisco4006. But worse than that BB is still unable to get anything regarding the MRTG data. What I want is for BB to give a green or red on MRTG data and if you click on the green or red button you would get redirected to the MRTG graphs. I kept reading, by now Google searching this list and the big brother archive for information on the topic and the best I can come up with is this entry for the bb-hosts file: <ip addrs of the machine running bb & MRTG> <machine name> # BBPAGER BBNET BBDISPLAY bbmrtg Alright, except that the bb page just shows Machine name and a column about this host being pingable and nothing on MRTG. *** SUMMARY *** I have modified $BBHOME/ext/bbmrtg.pl to work with a _working_ MRTG cfg file. I have made a $BBHOME/etc/bb-bbexttab file and added a reference to bbmrtg.pl in that file. I have added bbmrtg to the list of 'services' available on the host running BB and MRTG. What am I forgetting? What am I doing wrong? Where can/should I go for further help? Thank you all for any help/advice you can offer. If anyone feels there is a better tool than BB for producing a front end to MRTG please let me know, I would be very interested in hearing about it. Thanks again, Michael -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi