MRTGOBOT

Robot script for a full MRTG installation: takes care of index, updates and rsync

mrtgobot setup

• helps set up a minimal MRTG .cfg config file
• will ask for target folder, html output folder, rsync settings, ...
• will set up a list of localhost metrics for MRTG (cpu/mem/disk/netw)

mrtgobot run [target]

• run MRTG for target (typically every 5 minutes)
• target can be 1 .cfg file, or a folder of .cfg files

mrtgobot index [target]

• create HTML index files for target
• target can be 1 .cfg file, or a folder of .cfg files

mrtgobot rsync [target]

• rsync the HTML output of the target to a different server
• typical setup: a LAN server
• target can be 1 .cfg file, or a folder of .cfg files

mrtgobot crontab [target]

gives back a good suggestion for insertion into your cron jobs

• every 5 minutes for mrtgobot run
• 1/hour for mrtgobot rsync
• 1/day for mrtgobot index

mrtgobot probe [metric]

• allows for measuring server metrics and returnign result in MRTG compatible format

• metrics: cpu,mem,disk,network (OS independent)

• MRTG format = Extended MRTG TXT format

    [I value]
    [O value]
    [uptime]
    [description]
    [...] (is not used by MRTG, but can contain useful extra information for testing)
    [...]