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MRTG Configuration in Nagios

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2010-12-20

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Narayanan Anandpadmanabhan

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Table of Contents
1. Configuration of MRTG in Nagios...4 2. Solution for errors..................................................................................................... 5

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1. The configuration of the Nagios for MRTG is done as follows STEP1: Goto Services.cfg [1] and add the following documents for enabling MRTG analysis define service{ use generic-service ; Inherit values from a template host_name localhost service_description Bandwidth Usage check_command check_local_mrtgtraf!/var/lib/mrtg/127.0.0.1_1.log!AVG!1000000,2000000!5000000, 5000000!10 } ##ROUTER AT TTCL define service{ use generic-service ; Inherit values from a template host_name router-at-TTCL-eth0 service_description Port 1 Bandwidth Usage check_command check_local_mrtgtraf!/var/lib/mrtg/196.43.72.33_6.log!AVG! 1000000,2000000!5000000,5000000!10 } ##BUNDA define service{ use generic-service ; Inherit values from a template host_name router-at-bunda-eth1 service_description Port 1 Bandwidth Usage check_command check_local_mrtgtraf!/var/lib/mrtg/196.43.72.34_1.log!AVG! 1000000,2000000!5000000,5000000!10 } define service{ use generic-service ; Inherit values from a template host_name router-at-bunda-eth4 service_description Port 1 Bandwidth Usage check_command check_local_mrtgtraf!/var/lib/mrtg/172.16.96.1_2.log!AVG! 1000000,2000000!5000000,5000000!10 } ###NATA define service{ use generic-service ; Inherit values from a template host_name router-at-nata-eth1 service_description Port 1 Bandwidth Usage check_command check_local_mrtgtraf!/var/lib/mrtg/172.16.96.7_3.log!AVG! 1000000,2000000!5000000,5000000!10 } STEP2: Save the file. STEP3: Restart Nagios. Page 4 of 5
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2. Solution for errors After the configuration of the MRTG plugin in Nagios and once we restarted Nagios, we were repeatedly getting the error "check_mrtgtraf: Unable to open MRTG log file". [1] In the Commands.cfg file we had the configuration as # 'check_local_mrtgtraf' command definition define command{ command_name check_local_mrtgtraf command_line $USER1$/check_mrtgtraf -F $ARG1$ -a $ARG2 -w $ARG3$,$ARG4$ -c $ARG5$,$ARG6$ } So there was no LOGFILE option defined in this file. This was the main cause for the error. So to fix this we changed the commands.cfg file as below # 'check_local_mrtgtraf' command definition define command{ command_name check_local_mrtgtraf command_line $USER1$/check_mrtgtraf -F $LOGFILE$ -a $ARG1$ -w $ARG3$,$ARG4$ -c $ARG5$,$ARG6$ } References [1] http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagios-3.pdf

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