[ixpmanager] MRTG collector is on a different server

[Barry O'Donovan]

Hi Ian,

Ian Chilton wrote on 15/02/2021 12:03:
> I assume the grapher:upload-stats-to-db and 
> grapher:upload-pi-stats-to-db jobs (as well as the email ones) should 
> run on the main ixpmanager host? - and it will use 
> GRAPHER_BACKEND_MRTG_LOGDIR to pull that data, be it set to a local dir 
> or a remote http(s) endpoint?

Correct on both counts.

> With regards to the graphs when mrtg is on a different host - does it 
> directly reference the MRTG host in image src tags directly, or does it 
> do some caching and still serve up graphs from the ixpmanager host?

It basically proxies the image requests - no internal MRTG host is exposed.

  - Barry

> 
> Obviously the answer will be obvious once implemented, but whether the 
> mrtg needs to be publicly accessible influences which vlan it goes on etc.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ian
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Kind regards,
Barry O'Donovan
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