[ixpmanager] Running MRTG

[Barry O'Donovan]

Hi Fabiano,

 > I mean I also have to install MRTG following the procedure on the 
official site?

MRTG is not part of IXP Manager itself - it is a separate program. IXP 
Manager generates configuration for it so that you can create traffic 
graphs appropriate for display in IXP Manager.

It needs to be installed in whatever the appropriate way is for your 
operating system.

You do not need to run indexmaker or configure Apache - that would only 
be required if you wanted to display MRTG graphs separate to IXP Manager.


I think the documentation here is fairly comprehensive:

https://docs.ixpmanager.org/grapher/mrtg/#mrtg-setup-and-configuration

I think a decent reading of that page should help.

  - Barry




Fabiano D'Agostino wrote on 12/03/2020 15:31:
> Hi,
> I generated the MRTG configuration with this command: php artisan 
> grapher:generate-configuration -B mrtg -O /etc/mrtg.cfg
> Then I created the index with: sudo indexmaker /etc/mrtg.cfg > 
> /srv/mrtg/index.html
> And then I edited /etc/apache2/sites-available/mrtg.conf in this way:
> 
> <VirtualHost *:80>
> ServerAdminadmin at yourdomain.com <mailto:admin at yourdomain.com>
> DocumentRoot "/srv/mrtg"
> ServerNameyourdomain.com <http://yourdomain.com>
> <Directory "/srv/mrtg/">
> Options None
> AllowOverride None
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> Require all granted
> </Directory>
> TransferLog /var/log/apache2/mrtg_access.log
> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/mrtg_error.log
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> Now on the IXP Manager homepage "Infrastructure Graphs", but they are blanks without traffic.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Fabiano
> 
> 
> Il giorno gio 12 mar 2020 alle ore 09:57 Barry O'Donovan 
> <barry.odonovan at inex.ie <mailto:barry.odonovan at inex.ie>> ha scritto:
> 
>     Hi Fabiano,
> 
>     have you looked at this:
> 
>     https://docs.ixpmanager.org/grapher/mrtg/#troubleshooting
> 
>     If so, we'd need a lot more information and a lot of this is covered
>     under 'The Best Way to Ask for Help' at:
> 
>     https://www.ixpmanager.org/support#asking-for-help
> 
>     If troubleshooting above doesn't help, we're always eager to have
>     people
>     contribute improvements and other tips to the documentation.
> 
>     Thanks,
>         - Barry
> 
> 
> 
>     Fabiano D'Agostino wrote on 12/03/2020 08:52:
>      > Hi All,
>      > I am having some issues to run MRTG on IXP Manager. I did the
>     following
>      > steps:
>      >
>      >  1. apt install rrdtool mrtg
>      >  2. mkdir -p /srv/mrtg
>      >  3. updated .env file
>      >  4. php artisan grapher:generate-configuration -B mrtg
>      >  5. php artisan grapher:generate-configuration -B mrtg -O
>      >     /tmp/mrtg.cfg.candidate
>      >
>      > Now in IXP Manager's homepage I see blank graphs, how can I run MRTG?
>      >
>      > Thanks in advance,
>      >
>      > Fabiano
>      >
>      >
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Barry O'Donovan
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