[ixpmanager] Grapher

Sat Feb 24 08:09:54 GMT 2018

Barry,

Line 140 of the Grapher notes

+cat $TMPCONF | egrep -v '^#.*$' |

should read

+cat $TMPCONF | egrep -v '^#.*$' | \

regards,

Diarmuid

--

*Irish by birth, located in Uganda but Munster by the grace of God.*

On 24 February 2018 at 10:09, Diarmuid O Briain <diarmuid at obriain.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After reading the manual you are left with the impression that this
> command it only generating output to stdout, a sort of test if you will.
>
> ------------
> +# Move to the directory where you have installed IXP Manager (typically:
> /srv/ixpmanager)
> +cd $IXPROOT
> +
> +# Generate MRTG configuration and output to stdout:
>  ./artisan grapher:generate-configuration -B mrtg
>
> ------------
>
> However, it appears to be generating these files ?
>
> ubuntu at ixpm1:/srv/ixpmanager$ ls -la database/Proxies | grep 'Feb 24'
> drwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data  3028 Feb 24 06:53 .
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 12083 Feb 24 06:53 __CG__EntitiesCabinet.php
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 14049 Feb 24 06:53 __CG__
> EntitiesCompanyBillingDetail.php
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 10639 Feb 24 06:53 __CG__
> EntitiesCompanyRegisteredDetail.php
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data  9490 Feb 24 06:53
> __CG__EntitiesInfrastructure.php
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data  7446 Feb 24 06:53
> __CG__EntitiesIRRDBConfig.php
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 18212 Feb 24 06:53
> __CG__EntitiesSwitcher.php
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 21414 Feb 24 06:53
> __CG__EntitiesSwitchPort.php
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data  8238 Feb 24 06:53 __CG__EntitiesVendor.php
>
> Is this correct ?
>
> regards,
>
> Diarmuid
>
>
> --
>
> *Irish by birth, located in Uganda but Munster by the grace of God.*
>
>
>
> On 24 February 2018 at 10:02, Diarmuid O Briain <diarmuid at obriain.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Barry,
>>
>> After running this command the files generated are owned by root:root and
>> not www-data:www-data like the other files in the  $IXPROOT/database/Proxies
>> directory.
>>
>> ubuntu at ixpm1:/srv/ixpmanager$ sudo ./artisan
>> grapher:generate-configuration -B mrtg
>>
>> Is it necessary to change the ownership of these files to the user and
>> group www-data.
>>
>> ubuntu at ixpm1:/srv/ixpmanager$ sudo chown -R www-data:
>> $IXPROOT/database/Proxies
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Diarmuid
>>
>> --
>>
>> *Irish by birth, located in Uganda but Munster by the grace of God.*
>>
>>
>>
>> On 24 February 2018 at 09:46, Diarmuid O Briain <diarmuid at obriain.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Barry,
>>>
>>> My I also suggest changing the defaults in $IXPROOT/.env to match your
>>> documentation and adding a default for GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_DBTYPE
>>> which is missing. I had to append it rather than change it.
>>>
>>> i.e. this is what is required to make the changes for MRTG now. It was
>>> ubuntu at ixpm1:~$ sudo sed -i.bak -e "/GRAPHER_BACKENDS/ i # Added for
>>> IXP Manager Lab `date +'%D'`" \
>>>   -e '/GRAPHER_BACKENDS/ s/.*/GRAPHER_BACKENDS="mrtg"/' \
>>>   -e '/MRTG_WORKDIR/s/.*/GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_WORKDIR="\/srv\/mrtg"/' \
>>>   -e '/MRTG_LOGDIR/s/.*/GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_LOGDIR="\/srv\/mrtg"/' \
>>>   -e '/MRTG_LOGDIR/ a GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_DBTYPE="rrd"' \
>>>   -e '/GRAPHER_CACHE_ENABLED/ s/.*/GRAPHER_CACHE_ENABLED=true/'
>>> $IXPROOT/.env
>>>
>>>
>>> ubuntu at ixpm1:~$ diff $IXPROOT/.env.bak $IXPROOT/.env
>>> 81c81,82
>>> < GRAPHER_BACKENDS="dummy"
>>> ---
>>> > # Added for IXP Manager Lab 02/24/18
>>> > GRAPHER_BACKENDS="mrtg"
>>> 83,84c84,86
>>> < #GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_WORKDIR="/tmp"
>>> < #GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_LOGDIR="http://stats.example.com/mrtg"
>>> ---
>>> > GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_WORKDIR="/srv/mrtg"
>>> > GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_LOGDIR="/srv/mrtg"
>>> > GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_DBTYPE="rrd"
>>> 86c88
>>> < #GRAPHER_CACHE_ENABLED=true
>>> ---
>>> > GRAPHER_CACHE_ENABLED=true
>>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> Diarmuid
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> *Irish by birth, located in Uganda but Munster by the grace of God.*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 23 February 2018 at 18:24, Barry O'Donovan <barry.odonovan at inex.ie>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Diarmuid O Briain wrote:
>>>> > I am going through the Grapher install and I fear it appears to be
>>>> more
>>>> > obfuscation.
>>>>
>>>> Probably not the best opening to a request for help :-(
>>>>
>>>> I've taken another run at the docs - changes here: https://git.io/vAaCS
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  - Barry
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > Questions below are in {{  }} other text is extracted
>>>> > from http://docs.ixpmanager.org/features/grapher/
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > (1)
>>>> > apt-get install libconfig-general-perl libnetaddr-ip-perl mrtg
>>>> > {{ is rrdtool missing from this line }}
>>>> >
>>>> > (2)
>>>> > mkdir -p /srv/mrtg
>>>> > {{ What is this for ? it is not referenced in the .env examples }}
>>>> >
>>>> > (3)
>>>> > In your .env, you need to set the following options:
>>>> > {{ is this .bashrc, if so why not say it, the install script only
>>>> works
>>>> > for Ubuntu }}
>>>> >
>>>> > (4)
>>>> > GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_WORKDIR="/tmp"
>>>> > {{ is /tmp a fair example or should this be in /srv/mrtg }}
>>>> >
>>>> > (5)
>>>> > GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_LOGDIR="http://collector.example.com/mrtg"
>>>> >  {{ Again is this a fair example or should this be in /srv/mrtg }}
>>>> >
>>>> > regards,
>>>> >
>>>> > Diarmuid
>>>> > --
>>>> >
>>>> > */Irish by birth, located in Uganda but Munster by the grace of God./*
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > _______________________________________________
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>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Barry O'Donovan
>>>> INEX Operations
>>>>
>>>> https://www.inex.ie/support/
>>>> +353 1 531 3339
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
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