Multi Router Traffic Grapher

Server Setup

this document assumes that you already have a Apache and net-snmp working and configured properly

The following should all be performed as root.

• Install the necessary programs

# pacman -S mrtg perl-net-snmp

• create an mrtg user

# useradd -d /srv/http/mrtg mrtg

• create the user home directory and change the owner ship to the user

# mkdir /srv/http/mrtg/
# chown mrtg:mrtg /srv/http/mrtg

MRTG Setup

there are meny ways to configure the mrtg for your local server. this document will describe the must easest way to expend the application for other server and network appliances when and if needed.

The following should all be performed as the mrtg user we created.

• create an HTML directory to hold the png files and the index.html file

# mkdir /srv/http/mrtg/html

now we will begin dealing with the application scripts first we will create a basic mrtg.cfg file

• the next script will scan our localhost for it's interfaces and create for us the relevent configuration for each interface

# cfgmaker --output=/srv/http/mrtg/mrtg2.cfg --ifref=name --ifref=descr --global "WorkDir: /srv/http/mrtg" public@localhost

• the mrtg.cfg files contains all the server interfaces. we do not need the "lo" interface so we are going to delete it and edit the global configuration

mrtg.cfg Global configuration

remove the lines that are irrelevant to the interface and add the fallowing lines at the top:

### Global configuration  ###

LoadMIBs: /usr/share/snmp/mibs/UCD-SNMP-MIB.txt
EnableIPv6: no
HtmlDir: /srv/http/mrtg/html
ImageDir: /srv/http/mrtg/html
LogDir: /srv/http/mrtg
ThreshDir: /srv/http/mrtg
RunAsDaemon: Yes
Interval: 5
Refresh: 600

the global configuration lines are :

1) to load the Linux MIB to the mrtg Applicaiton

2) to enable/disable IPv6

3) HTML home directory

4) the png files home directory

5) the log dir files locations

6) the Thres Directory

7) wether or not we want to run the application as a daemon , in this case : yes

8) the daemon interval (minimum 5 min)

9) the interval to refresh the html files

resource monitoring

now that we have the global configuration set we need to add the resources and devices we want to monitor.

in this tutorial we are going to monitor:

1)CPU

2)memory Usage

3)swap

4)Load Average

5)processes

6)the server interfaces

7)users count

8)the server mount points

CPU Monitoring

for monitoring the CPU we need to add the next lines :

Target[localhost.cpu]:ssCpuRawUser.0&ssCpuRawUser.0:public@127.0.0.1 + ssCpuRawSystem.0&ssCpuRawSystem.0:public@127.0.0.1 + ssCpuRawNice.0&ssCpuRawNice.0:public@127.0.0.1
RouterUptime[localhost.cpu]: public@127.0.0.1
MaxBytes[localhost.cpu]: 100
Title[localhost.cpu]: CPU Load
PageTop[localhost.cpu]: Active CPU Load %
Unscaled[localhost.cpu]: ymwd
ShortLegend[localhost.cpu]: %
YLegend[localhost.cpu]: CPU Utilization
Legend1[localhost.cpu]: Active CPU in % (Load)
Legend2[localhost.cpu]:
Legend3[localhost.cpu]:
Legend4[localhost.cpu]:
LegendI[localhost.cpu]:  Active
LegendO[localhost.cpu]:
Options[localhost.cpu]: growright,nopercent