MRTG 2.16 with Routers2 on CentOS 5

Contents 1 Required Packages 1.1 RPMs 1.2 Perl Modules 2 Paths 3 Apache Setup 4 Perms 5 Setup for Single Server 6 Setup for Multiple Devices 7 Crontab Setup 7.1 Single server 7.2 Multiple Servers 8 Common Errors

Required Packages

RPMs

• gd-devel-2.0.33-9.4.el5_4.2.x86_64

Installing for gd-devel dependencies:

fontconfig-devel x86_64 2.4.1-7.el5 base 168 k

freetype-devel x86_64 2.2.1-21.el5_3 base

libX11-devel x86_64 1.0.3-11.el5 base

libXau-devel x86_64 1.0.1-3.1 base

libXdmcp-devel x86_64 1.0.1-2.1 base

libXpm-devel x86_64 3.5.5-3 base

libjpeg-devel x86_64 6b-37 base

libpng-devel x86_64 2:1.2.10-7.1.el5_3.2 base

mesa-libGL-devel x86_64 6.5.1-7.8.el5 base

xorg-x11-proto-devel x86_64 7.1-13.el5 base

• MRTG 2.16 (build from spec file default RPM didnt have all the features I wanted and the autoconf wasn't working with all my Ciscos)
• rrdutils.noarch - RPMForge
• rrdtool-devel - RPMForge
• rrdtool - RPMForge

Installing for prereqs

lua x86_64 5.1.4-2.el5.rf rpmforge 235 k

perl-rrdtool x86_64 1.4.3-2.el5.rf rpmforge 54 k

ruby x86_64 1.8.5-5.el5_4.8 base 274 k

ruby-libs x86_64 1.8.5-5.el5_4.8 base 1.6 M

xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 noarch 7.1-2.1.el5 base 1.5 M

Perl Modules

• GD - CPAN (Optional)
• Time::Zone - CPAN (Optional)
• Net::SNMP - CPAN (Optional for routing table module)

Paths

Apache Setup

Perms

• apache.apache

/path/to/your/directory/called/graphs

Setup for Single Server

Setup for Multiple Devices

Crontab Setup

Single server

• /5 * * * * /usr/local/mrtg/mrtg_run.sh

Multiple Servers

Common Errors

• Can't locate MRTG_lib.pm in @INC

• Fixes

use lib "${FindBin::Bin}"; Changes to use lib "/usr/lib64/mrtg2"; - Or something that gets that path added.