On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 09:13 +1300, Steve Shipway 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?
I've hacked up bbmap to do something similar, but this is way cooler! > > 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: [...] > 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 generate a lot of that information from a database of eigrp state changes that I maintain by watching syslog form all of my routers.. Of course the layout is manual. > > 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. Yes, I'm always looking for something new... -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX Austin Energy http://www.austinenergy.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
