[ixpmanager] MRTG collector is on a different server

[Ian Chilton]

Hi,

You also need to generate the MRTG config using the IXP Manager API - 
there is an example of this under “Generating MRTG Configuration” on 
https://docs.ixpmanager.org/grapher/mrtg/.

Ian


On 13 Feb 2021, at 10:55, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> Basil Elbalaawi wrote on 13/02/2021 03:41:
>> Which procedure can be used to  MRTG to be deployed on a separate 
>> server?
>
> Hi Basil,
>
> This is very simple.  You set up MRTG on the separate server in the 
> same way as you set it up on the ixpmanager server.  Then you make the 
> graphing directory available over http on the mrtg server.
>
> Once this is done, you configure IXP Manager to use the remote server 
> from the .env file, using the following config parameters:
>
> GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_WORKDIR: the directory on the mrtg server where 
> all the mrtg data is kept.
>
> GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_LOGDIR: the address where the mrtg data can be 
> accessed via http
>
> e.g.:
>
> GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_WORKDIR="/var/lib/mrtg"
> GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_LOGDIR="http://10.0.1.50/mrtg"