Comments on: MRTG Installation and Configuration in Debian based Distributions

By: Yoan

Yoan — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:29:19 +0000

i’ve done everything as it is, but got error, when i tried to add cpu an mem graph.

ERROR: CFG Error Unknown Option “sscpurawnice.0&sscpurawnice.0″ on line 5 or above.
Check /usr/share/doc/mrtg/mrtg-reference.txt.gz for Help

By: Trider.dk

Trider.dk — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:45:27 +0000

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

it meens, that the scrip is allready running.. as daemon? or see crontab -l

By: Stavros

Stavros — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:19:02 +0000

Get the following error message:

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

Please Help!

By: bishal

bishal — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:32:37 +0000

should we create the /etc/mrtg/cpu.cfg /mem.cfg /memfree.cfg /mempercent.cfg
/disk.cfg files or they are somewhere already present ? cannot go ahead to monitoring disk, memory and cpu but only traffic analysis ? I am stuck here can anyone help from here ? I guess the tutorial lags proper explanation regarding these, Can anyone help in this matter, I googled for some time but cannot come up with a solution to cpu, disk, memory anylysis.

Thanks in advance.

By: Lawrence Giam

Lawrence Giam — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:09:29 +0000

Hi there,

Tried installing MRTG on Debian Etch with the standard installation instruction. As per the instruction, I think the RunAsDaemon=yes should be set to RunAsDaemon=no. The reason is that if you set RunAsDaemon to yes and put a cron job to run every 5 mins, it will complaint with this message
==> mrtg/mrtg.log <==
ERROR: I Quit! Another copy of mrtg seems to be running. Check /etc/mrtg.pid

Not sure why nobody notice this.

Regards.

By: Troma

Troma — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:58:16 +0000

Hi all !

When I finished the installation using this guide, after I rebooted my box, I wait for a few minutes and then start the MRTG page… but all I can see is the MRTG-logo which is a link redirecting me to the MRTG website… so I don’t get any graph on my MRTG homepage.

I had no errors during installation.

I also wanted to check the config files for monitoring purposes, but it seems no MRTG map was created in etc/… did I do something wrong ? did I not do something ? did I miss something ?

Thanks for any help anyone can provide

Ch33rz,
Troma

By: PatoFlash

PatoFlash — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:02:27 +0000

For the problem

“Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/bin/indexmaker line 352″

Before do indexmarket you need connect the linux server to the network, and you need make a ping from linux server to other workstation for traffic generation. Try againg cfgmaker , indexmaker and mrtg commands.

Patoflash

By: eok

eok — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:25:55 +0000

lol, this page crams the two dashes together.. –output should have two dashes

By: eok

eok — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:24:26 +0000

found the problem: #/usr/bin/indexmaker –output=/var/www/mrtg/index.html \ should be: /usr/bin/indexmaker –output=/var/www/mrtg/index.html

By: eok

eok — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:33:30 +0000

Hello, everything goes well until i try this:

Make the Index Files

#/usr/bin/indexmaker –output=/var/www/mrtg/index.html \
–title=”Memory and CPU Usage ” \
–sort=name \
–enumerate \
/etc/mrtg/cpu.cfg \
/etc/mrtg/mem.cfg \
/etc/cron.mrtg/memfree \
/etc/cron.mrtg/mempercent \
/etc/cron.mrtg/disk

i get:

ERROR: unable to open config file: –output=/var/www/mrtg/index.html

By: alalavin

alalavin — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:17:43 +0000

this is a wonderful site. BLESSIMO

By: Marek

Marek — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:23:46 +0000

I got an error:

Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/bin/indexmaker line 352.

Please help !

By: Rainboww

Rainboww — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:23:06 +0000

the permission denied error when running indexmaker comes from omitting one of the backslashes at the end of each line. if you’ve written this to a script as i have, bash is trying to run the next line (after the missing backslash) as a command. as your cmd files are not chmod +x, they won’t run. to resolve, add the necessary backslashes.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:23:16 +0000

I was good up until the, “examples how to monitor cpu, memory, disk usuage”.
These examples, should I create the /etc/mrtg/cpu.cfg /mem.cfg /memfree.cfg /mempercent.cfg
/disk.cfg files? Or are these already created? Should I just copy and past what is listed
above for these .cfg files? Is there anything I need to change to be specific for my devices?

Also the “Creating Jobs for CPU, Memory and disk usuage”, do I create these files , the one for
cron.mrtg/cpu /mem /memfree /mempercent /disk. I am using Ubuntu, which is very similar
to Debian. I can not seem to locate any of these files in the locations were you said they were
located. Not to mention when I did try creating them, it said permission denied.

Please help. I have MRTG up and working, and would like to tie up the rest soon.

By: Heath

Heath — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:46:11 +0000

In response to jamie:

Make sure that you don’t have an extra line break. That should all be on one line in the cfg file.

By: jamie

jamie — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:02:48 +0000

hi Thanks for the tutorial.

Am experiencing a problem when I run:

/usr/bin/indexmaker -output=/var/www/mrtg/index.html -title=”Memory and CPU Usage” /etc/mrtg/cpu.cfg

I get the following error:

ERROR: CFG Error Unknown Option “sscpurawnice.0&sscpurawnice.0″ on line 5 or above.
Check doc/reference.txt for Help

Any ideas?

By: boast

boast — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:49:39 +0000

I don’t get it.

[ Error writing /etc/cron.mrtg/cpu: No such file or directory ]

By: bozhan

bozhan — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 22:49:50 +0000

LoadMIBs: /usr/share/snmp/mibs/UCD-SNMP-MIB.txt /usr/share/snmp/mibs/HOST-RESOURCES-MIB.txt /usr/share/snmp/mibs/HOST-RESOURCES-MIB.txt /usr/share/snmp/mibs/HOST-RESOURCES-MIB.txt

all on one line.

By: Francois Gouget

Francois Gouget — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:41:53 +0000

Some notes:

The snmpd restart command has a typo.

You should warn people about wrapping for the cpu.cfg file. This got me as I copy/pasted (copy/pasting from the website is very strange, it also nukes dashes and quotes).

The memfree.cfg, mempercent.cfg and disk.cfg sample files are missing the WorkDir directive so that they don’t work.

Also cpu.cfg and mem.cfg don’t have any tag in the PageTop property so that indexmaker choked on them. indexmaker also choked on every single other .cfg file because it does not like ” and wants ” instead (no space). Same for the closing tags.

The last indexmaker command looks wrong as it mixed .cfg files and cron scripts:
> /usr/bin/indexmaker \u2013output=/var/www/mrtg/index.html \
[...]
> /etc/mrtg/cpu.cfg \
> /etc/mrtg/mem.cfg \
> /etc/cron.mrtg/memfree \

Also, why not start with /etc/mrtg.cfg which we created in one of the first steps and now contains all the network interfaces?

Finally, why does the last cfgmaker command write to /etc/mrtg/mrtg.conf rather than /etc/mrtg.cfg? This mrtg.conf is not referenced anywhere else so I don’t see what’s the point. And if it should have been /etc/mrtg.cfg, then why have us run another cfgmaker command before?

Also, why run this cfgmaker command after indexmaker? Shouldn’t it be the other way around?

By: ShinejikidS

ShinejikidS — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:40:12 +0000

vi /etc/cron.mrtg/cpu right???