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Re: Enhancing automation with network growth
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon () cox net>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:38:29 -0600
On 1/21/2010 4:29 PM, Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:52:39PM -0500, Erik L wrote:One thing that would take a major load off would be if my MRTG system could simply update its config/index files for itself, instead of me having to do it on each and every port change. Can anyone offer up ideas on how you manage any automation in this regard for their infrastructure gear traffic graphs? (Commercial options welcome, off-list, but we're as small as our budget is).Not sure how you're doing your graphs currently, but have you considered Cacti?If automating MRTG config is hard, automating Cacti config is about as close to "impossible" as one can get without popping around to the Augean stables.
It has been a while, and I have not been following this thread, but once upon a time I had Korn scripts that read (SNMP) devices found and generated MRTG scripts for what it found.
Sure enough, I had to go into each one and clean up names and stuff, and occasionally to discard some of what the automaton had created.
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Current thread:
- Enhancing automation with network growth Steve Bertrand (Jan 20)
- RE: Enhancing automation with network growth Erik L (Jan 20)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Matthew Palmer (Jan 21)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Larry Sheldon (Jan 21)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Matthew Palmer (Jan 21)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Chris Adams (Jan 20)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jan 20)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Richard A Steenbergen (Jan 20)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Dan White (Jan 20)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Tom Wright (Jan 21)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Steve Bertrand (Jan 25)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Andy Davidson (Jan 26)
- Re: Enhancing automation with network growth Steve Bertrand (Jan 26)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: RE: Enhancing automation with network growth Kevin St John (Jan 21)
- RE: Enhancing automation with network growth Erik L (Jan 20)