mrtg on centos?

[10101]

Hi,

I have used mrtg rpms on RH before but it doenst seem to like centos, is it possible to get it working on centos?

Thanks,

[DigitalN]

You could always download the source, mirrors located from here: http://mrtg.hdl.com/mrtg.html

There's a good tutorial here for configuring mrtg : http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-hn/mrtg.htm

[10101]

thanks, I will take a look.

[10101]

I got a copy of mrtg working great and then when upcp ran it thought it would be clever and update mt mrtg too.... which it gladley broke.

How do you stop cpanel updating certain programs?

[DigitalN]

On Centos, you should find the following file

/etc/yum.conf

[main]
exclude=mrtg httpd kernel kernel-smp mysql php mod_* perl

(add this at the top of the file with mrtg and that should resolve the problem updating mrtg)

You can add packages to that file to be excluded, include/exclude as many as you need to , those listed above would be just an example of some that you don't really want updated as a rule automatically by yum updates. (which cpanel runs each night if you have that option for security updates set to on in whm).

Hope this helps.

[10101]

That worked a treat! thanks very much

[Adrnalnrsh]

Im trying this now.

We'll see how it goes.

Thanks,

Dave.

[spaceman]

Has anyone got mrtg running where the server load is not measured by snmp but instead reports on the load averages that 'top' would report?

I ask because the two are not often (ever?) the same. I've had a few occasions recently where a server has ground to a halt because of a runaway process and 'top' was indeed reporting load averages as being very high. But at the time I was looking a nice mrtg graph of cpu load that uses snmp for it's server load info, and everything looked normal.

In other words, it's not much point me having a nice mrtg graph of server load ('cpu utilization') if it's not giving me useful information.