[ixpmanager] Graphing

[Diarmuid O Briain]

Edrich et al,

Thanks, I certainly thought so. However I am confused about that now. The
notes on Grapher talk about starting and stopping using standard initd
scripts ? Ubuntu 16.04 upon which the IXP Manager is based uses systemctl
not initd.

According to the documentation:

To start and stop MRTG use the standard initd scripts:

ubuntu at ixpm1:~$ sudo cp $IXPROOT/tools/runtime/mrtg/ubuntu-mrtg-initd
/etc/init.d/mrtg

ubuntu at ixpm1:~$ sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/mrtg

ubuntu at ixpm1:~$ sudo update-rc.d mrtg defaults

ubuntu at ixpm1:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/mrtg start
[....] Starting mrtg (via systemctl): mrtg.serviceJob for mrtg.service
failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl
status mrtg.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
 failed!

ubuntu at ixpm1:~$ systemctl status mrtg.service
● mrtg.service - LSB: mrtg init script
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/mrtg; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2018-03-02 11:06:15 UTC;
39s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 1798 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/mrtg start (code=exited, status=2)

It then says:

And disable the default cron job for MRTG on Ubuntu (/etc/cron.d/mrtg).

So which is it, does it run as a daemon or does /etc/cron.d/mrtg run the
cron every 5 minutes ?

My /var/log/mrtg/mrtg.log is giving the following message:

ERROR: I Quit! Another copy of mrtg seems to be running. Check /etc/mrtg.pid
Daemonizing MRTG ...
ERROR: I Quit! Another copy of mrtg seems to be running. Check /etc/mrtg.pid
Daemonizing MRTG ...
ERROR: I Quit! Another copy of mrtg seems to be running. Check /etc/mrtg.pid
Daemonizing MRTG ...

root at ixpm1:~# cat /etc/mrtg.pid
1666

The MRTG process is running.

root at ixpm1:~# ps -ef | grep mrtg
root      1666     1  0 11:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl -w
/usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg.cfg

regards,

Diarmuid

--

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



On 28 February 2018 at 07:32, Edrich de Lange <edd at delcon.biz> wrote:

> Is your cron running?
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 6:09 AM, Diarmuid O Briain <diarmuid at obriain.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Barry,
>>
>> I am running traffic between the ISPs and this is the graphs
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Diarmuid
>>
>> [image: Inline images 1]
>>
>> --
>>
>> *Irish by birth, located in Uganda but Munster by the grace of God.*
>>
>>
>>
>> On 27 February 2018 at 23:08, Barry O'Donovan <barry.odonovan at inex.ie>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Diarmuid O Briain wrote:
>>> > I thought I had graphing working, the MRTG graphs appear. SNMP from the
>>> > switch is working, see extract from /etc/mrtg.cfg and I have done an
>>> > SNMP walk for the OID from the extract and the switch is responding.
>>> >
>>> > What other things should I check ?
>>>
>>> It's not clear from the above as to what's not working?
>>>
>>>  - Barry
>>>
>>>
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