FW: (ASCEND) Navis cost too much

[MyLink Admin <Admin@mylink.net>]

Thanks
For graphing 128K links on our max we just graph the remote router's wan port.  Most all of our clients are using ascend or cisco for their isdn routers so it makes it easy.  

One approach:  You could generate a new mrtg file each time before running mrtg that has the current ports for the links your monitoring.
Get inventive with an expect script to telnet into the max (like the finger2 example) and drop to term serv mode, do a show users or what have you, spit all this out to a file, then use say a perl script to parse the info and create a new mrtg.cfg file with the current ports for the links, and then run mrtg on this config file.  Piece it all together with a shell script to do each step in sequence, then run this shell script from a cron every 5 minutes instead of just running mrtg directly.

Scott McDonald
Systems Engineer
MyLink, Inc.
Admin@MyLink.net	



-----Original Message-----
From:	David Latter [SMTP:dl@river.net.au]
Sent:	Thursday, August 26, 1999 7:48 PM
To:	MyLink Admin
Subject:	RE: (ASCEND) Navis cost too much

Thanks for your prg, I am going to look at them soon.  I have been looking
around for a way to use MRTG to graph a 128k link on or max but I have not
found a way to keep track of what ports the link has jumped to? Have you
seen a solution for this, I was told there is a MIB that is a pointer but I
am only new to this Max and all the info I have found has not helped me.


I have hacked together a few prg from things I have found and use them to
see how many users are online, They also use the Finger prg but I think your
way will be a much better way.

You can see the ones I have done at

http://stats.river.net.au/programs/

Have a look and if you have any question please ask.

Be warned they are rough prg and I am in the process of rewriting them but
they work ok for us now.

I am only new to programming so I can help a little, I am using this prg to
teach myself how to prg and also have a good use.  I use this on our MAX
6000 but I think they my work on max 4000.

I also graph the total users on our box with MRTG. very good prg.

If you get any help or replays about other products please let me know as I
am always looking for stuff also.


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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ascend-users@max.bungi.com
[mailto:owner-ascend-users@max.bungi.com]On Behalf Of MyLink Admin
Sent: Friday, 27 August 1999 7:53
To: ascend-users@bungi.com
Subject: RE: (ASCEND) Navis cost too much


Threw together a quick little package for anybody who wants it.
This has got the finger2 wrapper and script, an example cgi, a query script
system for mrtg, an example mrtg.cfg entry, and a short README file with
directions on what to edit and change to get it working.
If you use it and improve it, please send me a copy of the improvements.

Scott McDonald
Systems Engineer
MyLink, Inc.
Admin@MyLink.net





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