<div dir="ltr">Barry,<div><br></div><div>My I also suggest changing the defaults in $IXPROOT/.env to match your documentation and adding a default for GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_DBTYPE which is missing. I had to append it rather than change it.</div><div><br></div><div>i.e. this is what is required to make the changes for MRTG now. It was </div><div><div>ubuntu@ixpm1:~$ sudo sed -i.bak -e "/GRAPHER_BACKENDS/ i # Added for IXP Manager Lab `date +'%D'`" \</div><div> -e '/GRAPHER_BACKENDS/ s/.*/GRAPHER_BACKENDS="mrtg"/' \</div><div> -e '/MRTG_WORKDIR/s/.*/GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_WORKDIR="\/srv\/mrtg"/' \</div><div> -e '/MRTG_LOGDIR/s/.*/GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_LOGDIR="\/srv\/mrtg"/' \</div><div> -e '/MRTG_LOGDIR/ a GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_DBTYPE="rrd"' \</div><div> -e '/GRAPHER_CACHE_ENABLED/ s/.*/GRAPHER_CACHE_ENABLED=true/' $IXPROOT/.env</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>ubuntu@ixpm1:~$ diff $IXPROOT/.env.bak $IXPROOT/.env</div><div>81c81,82</div><div>< GRAPHER_BACKENDS="dummy"</div><div>---</div><div>> # Added for IXP Manager Lab 02/24/18</div><div>> GRAPHER_BACKENDS="mrtg"</div><div>83,84c84,86</div><div>< #GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_WORKDIR="/tmp"</div><div>< #GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_LOGDIR="<a href="http://stats.example.com/mrtg">http://stats.example.com/mrtg</a>"</div><div>---</div><div>> GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_WORKDIR="/srv/mrtg"</div><div>> GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_LOGDIR="/srv/mrtg"</div><div>> GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_DBTYPE="rrd"</div><div>86c88</div><div>< #GRAPHER_CACHE_ENABLED=true</div><div>---</div><div>> GRAPHER_CACHE_ENABLED=true</div></div><div><br></div><div>regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Diarmuid</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">--</div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><b style="font-size:small"><i><font color="#38761d">Irish by birth,</font><font color="#ff9900"> located in Uganda</font> but <font color="#cc0000">Munster by the grace of God.</font></i></b><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 February 2018 at 18:24, Barry O'Donovan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barry.odonovan@inex.ie" target="_blank">barry.odonovan@inex.ie</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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Diarmuid O Briain wrote:<br>
> I am going through the Grapher install and I fear it appears to be more<br>
> obfuscation.<br>
<br>
Probably not the best opening to a request for help :-(<br>
<br>
I've taken another run at the docs - changes here: <a href="https://git.io/vAaCS" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://git.io/vAaCS</a><br>
<br>
<br>
- Barry<br>
<br>
<br>
> Questions below are in {{ }} other text is extracted<br>
> from <a href="http://docs.ixpmanager.org/features/grapher/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://docs.ixpmanager.org/<wbr>features/grapher/</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> (1)<br>
> apt-get install libconfig-general-perl libnetaddr-ip-perl mrtg<br>
> {{ is rrdtool missing from this line }}<br>
><br>
> (2)<br>
> mkdir -p /srv/mrtg<br>
> {{ What is this for ? it is not referenced in the .env examples }}<br>
><br>
> (3)<br>
> In your .env, you need to set the following options:<br>
> {{ is this .bashrc, if so why not say it, the install script only works<br>
> for Ubuntu }}<br>
><br>
> (4)<br>
> GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_WORKDIR="<wbr>/tmp"<br>
> {{ is /tmp a fair example or should this be in /srv/mrtg }}<br>
><br>
> (5)<br>
> GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_LOGDIR="<a href="http://collector.example.com/mrtg" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">h<wbr>ttp://collector.example.com/<wbr>mrtg</a>"<br>
> {{ Again is this a fair example or should this be in /srv/mrtg }}<br>
><br>
> regards,<br>
><br>
> Diarmuid<br>
> --<br>
><br>
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