[ixpmanager] MRTG - Restart on config changes?

[Barry O'Donovan]

Nick Hilliard (INEX) wrote on 17/02/2021 17:45:
> Ian Chilton wrote on 17/02/2021 10:16:
>> I’m interested what users are actually doing in practise - are you
>> letting MRTG pick up config changes, or forcing a restart on update?
> 
> at one stage INEX depended on mrtg automatically re-reading the config 
> file after it changed, and this usually works until it doesn't.  Overall 
> it's safer to do a hard reload.

Indeed and what we do in practice is per the sample scripts in the docs:

https://docs.ixpmanager.org/grapher/mrtg/#generating-mrtg-configuration

except we restart at the end.

NB: I have just pushed updates to the docs to add the restart.

Also NB: mrtg is restarted /only/ if the config changes.


  - Barry