Im not sure if this is actualy a network problem or a software problem.. probably more of a software problem but im gonna bet you network buffs know exactly what to do !!!

Any way, I'm running CentOS 3.4 and I have been trying to install MRTG. I have been really stuck on the installation, I'm really not sure how to do it. If anyone can help me go through a very detailed steb by step process of installing and configuring MRTG that would be great. Thanks alot in advance,

installation shouldnt be a problem. for a system that is already properly configured, its just a simple

tar zxvf mrtg.tar.gx
./configure
make
make install

after that, you cd into your mrtg dir (which is usually /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin

and give a command to make a config file. i keep the command in a little text file, and i just edit the device name each time and run it, nice and easy.

(this will all be one line of command, no carriage returns unless you add in slashes)

perl cfgmaker COMMUNITY@HOSTNAME.DOMAINNAME --global "Options[_]: bits" --global "RunAsDaemon: yes" --global "ImageDir: /var/www/html/mrtg/images" --global "HtmlDir: /var/www/html/mrtg/CITY/HOSTNAME" --global "LogDir:/var/www/html/mrtg/CITY/HOSNAME" --output HOSTNAME.cfg


which part of the install is not working?

I definatly have made some progress but it still doesnt seem to work.... perhaps you could assist even more?

I have done the make and make install and so on and ive run this command

perl cfgmaker public@myip --global "Options[_]: bits" --global "RunAsDaemon: yes" --global "ImageDir: /home/username/public_html/mrtg/images" --global "HtmlDir: /home/username/public_html/mrtg/report" --global "LogDir: /home/username/public_html/mrtg/logs" --output 1hhk.cfg

It doesnt seem to run in the correct place....

well, lets start from the beginning. what all happened during install? any strange messages about things that it wants being missing?

Nope. As far as I can tell the install was successful and the only thing wrong is that... my configuration or sumthin is bad or inccorect. What would be excelent is if some 1 could help me do this personaly ...

Thank in advance again.

What does that mean?? Do you get an error message? Any output at all?

No, otherwise i wud have stated it.

well, mrtg is quite verbose in telling you whats wrong during install. what did it say is wrong?

Ok i dont mean to be rude, but if it had an output, i wud tell you. Ok after running that command it just shows me the html on the screen and not where i told it to write. there are no error messages or any message of any type.

well we dont mean to be rude either, but unless you tell us exactly what you did, command by command, there is no way we can possibly guess what you need to do to correct your problem.

so, please give us a step by step of exactly what you did to set it up and configure your device script.

This is exactly what I did.

Download the MRTG.tar.gz

extract it and used the command

./configure
./make
./make install


then i did this

cd /bin

perl cfgmaker public@myip --global "Options[_]: bits" --global "RunAsDaemon: yes" --global "ImageDir: /home/username/public_html/mrtg/images" --global "HtmlDir: /home/username/public_html/mrtg/report" --global "LogDir: /home/username/public_html/mrtg/logs" --output 1hhk.cfg

then it showed a bunch of html which i presuem was the output it was supposed to create but it didnt save to where i told it too.

I asked you earlier if you got any output at all. To which you replied "no". A bunch of html is not no output at all. Post the output. Also check if the file /bin/1hhk.cfg exists and contains any data.

its not html output, its an snmpget. and exactly what it says is of the utmost importance.

Pardon? I said it had HTML...l said it had no error messages, at least thats what I meant.. sorry if i was unclear.

there is no 1hhk.cfg file