Hi,

i have been installing MRTG for some time and have noticed some few occurances.i installed it on mostly RH 9 systems.

i runthe normal cfgmake like this:

/usr/bin/cfgmaker --global 'WorkDir: /var/www/html' --global 'Options[_]: bits,growright,nobanner' --ifref=ip --subdirs HOSTNAME --output /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg abcdkkon@198.17.74.6

this works great.

i then run the mrtg command:

[root@mrtg2 root]# env LANG=C mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg

this gives me an error saying that it cannot find the "ip: 2.0.0.2.0.x.x.x.x" or something like that


i then have to open the mrtg.cfg to change all occurences of "198.17.74.6_2.0.0.2.0.x.x.x.x" on the needed interface(s) to 198.17.74.6_198.17.74.6" before the mrtg command can work.


Pls what cud be wrong with this? cud it be the mrtg version, snmp version or my cfgmaker command.


The second is that i hav been given people open access to view the mrtg on the mrtg box, i wud like to implement a secured solution whereby clients will have to login with a given username and password before they can get their corresponding mrtg results. i feel this will have a bit of mysql and php. pls i will welcome ideas about this coz i have mrtg working already


Thanks

D.

there are many ways to implement security.
simplest is to use password protection method of apache.apache sets password on your webfolder.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.1/howto/auth.html



i think u should also try cacti it comes with many features and easy to manage.

why you run [root@mrtg2 root]# env LANG=C mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg

why not a simple #mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg ???

Thanks for ur concern,

i use env LANG=C to override the system character settings coz it messes up my cfgmaker always complaining of UTF-8 stuffs.

Well , i will check out apache for those tips but i am not sure whether i can get a basic CGI script fr the login page for the mrtg viewers?

Thanks

D

well u can get many cgi scripts for simple user auth but u cant use it securely in mrtg environemnt.
because if any one just knows the exact url to graph image he can access any time bypassing cgi security.

u need to do some tricky scripting in this environment. like putting mrtg folders outside apache webfolders. then write a script so that on successful auth it copies relevant contents and displays to user.


try cacti may be it fitss ur scenerio.