Aggregate switch mrtg

[Nick Wambugu]

I have installed and run mrtg on a 52 port switch which is running. Now i
want to generate the aggregate for ports in use. How do I get the file to
run to generate this.

Thsnks

[S Shipway]

If all you are interested in is having a summary graph of the Incoming traffic, and another summary graph of the Outgoing traffic, then Routers2 does this automatically. You can put 'showtotal=yes' in your routers2.conf and the Incoming and Outgoing graphs will be generated with additional Total traffic lines.

However if you want to do this by a subset of ports, or on a single graph, then you'll need to do more work.

What you will need to do is to define a UserDefined summary graph over the ports that you are interested in. This summary graph can optionally include the separate lines for the ports, optionally stacked, with a Total line. I would suggest you suppress display of the numerical per-port data and per-port lines, and only include the total numbers and total lines, else it would be confusing - though you could use stack-mirror mode and include the per-port data.

To generate this automatically from cfgmaker, you'll need to use interface templates and host templates. The Host template should define the display parameters for the summary graph; the interface tmeplate should add the interface to the summary graph (if it meets the criteria you specify). This will require a bit of Perl coding knowledge.

Here is an EXAMPLE that needs a bit of work to complete.

Host template:

$target_lines .= <<ECHO;
routers.cgi*ShortDesc[mygraph]:Total
routers.cgi*Title[mygraph]:Total traffic
routers.cgi*Options[mygraph]:total nolines nodetails
#routers.cgi*GraphStyle[mygraph]:stackmirror
#routers.cgi*Options[mygraph]:total active
ECHO

And an interface template:

$target_lines = $default_target_lines;
if( insert your condition here ) {
$target_lines .= "routers.cgi*Graph[$target_name]: mygraph total nolines nodetails\n";
}

With a little work, this should achieve what you want automatically. Alternatively, you can manually set up a set.

Other useful options for the routers.cgi*Graph definition are 'active' (which will suppress components which are not active - remove the nolines and/or nodetails options if you use this), and if you remove either nolines or nodetails, you may want to use routers.cgi*GrpahStyle[mygraph]:stackmirror in the host template to get a stacked/mirror graph.

There's a lot more information on this in the documentation, in the book http://steveshipway.org/book/ or in the forum http://www.steveshipway.org/forum and there are some demo configurations showing stacked userdefined graphs in the demo site http://www.steveshipway.org/cgi-bin/routers2.pl

Steve

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From: Nick Wambugu [via MRTG Mailinglists] [mailto:ml-node+5503082-1628310813-***@n2.nabble.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 7 September 2010 1:13 a.m.
To: Steve Shipway
Subject: Aggregate switch mrtg

I have installed and run mrtg on a 52 port switch which is running. Now i want to generate the aggregate for ports in use. How do I get the file to run to generate this.

Thsnks

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