[ixpmanager] Grapher

[Barry O'Donovan]

Diarmuid O Briain wrote:
> Barry,
> 
> After running this command the files generated are owned by root:root
> and not www-data:www-data 

That's because you're running it with 'sudo'.

More to follow in reply to your next email.

 - Barry

> 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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/
>         <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
>         <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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