This is not my own HOWTO, but really a reiteration of gpan's mrtg rpm and a slight adaption of brandonk's RH8 thread.

Make sure that another mrtg rpm is not installed:

rpm -e mrtg

Then get gpan's rpm:

wget http://joseph.got-servers.net/mrtg-2.9.17-...cpanel.i386.rpm

Install the gpan RPM:

rpm -Uvh mrtg-2.9.17-1cpanel.i386.rpm

from WHM install this package:

gnome-libs

This installs a dependency that is not compatible, so we force uninstall it:

rpm -e --nodeps libpng10

Create a symlink as follows:

cd /usr/lib
ln -s libpng.so.3 libpng.so.2

Then start mrtg:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/mrtg restart

You'll probably need to do the above line at least three times to clear up some initial errors.

Then you can look at your graphs by going to:

http://host.name.com/mrtg/

Once that is done, you need to tell up2date not to update mrtg automatically.

up2date --configure

Select whichever option number for pkgSkipList
add

mrtg*;

to whatever else you have in there.

Thanks Jon!

oppppsss

mrtg installed and starts but I get the following:
root@secure [~]# ls: /var/spool/exim/input/*-H: No such file or directory
ls: /var/spool/exim/input/*-H: No such file or directory
ls: /var/spool/exim/input/*-H: No such file or directory

What did I do wrong :confused:

Restarted mrtg about 6 times receiving the same error each time.
/var/spool/exim/input/ is there with no files...

Any sugestions?

Thank you

Yes, I got them as well. Not sure what the deal with it is, btu I know the graphs are working okay. I could not find it logging that message anywhere either. Eventually I closed the SSH session, and obviously, i stopped seeing the messages, and all the graphs were looking okay.

I looked in the configuration file and saw the line. My best guess is that it is because that directory was empty.

When I restart it in SSH now, I am not getting the messages any longer, so I am thinking that it does that until it catches a file in there?

Give it a little time, and come back and restart it and see if you are still getting them.

Will do...

Thanks for the fast response!

Same thing happened to me, left SSH and logged into root again -no messages. Everything appears to be working as well. Just need to sort out the mailscanner-mrtg problems I've got!

Thanks for the great HOW-TO!

Yeah, that is on my list, the mrtg thing. (Ok, its not NEXT on my list, but its on my list)

Just edited the post. upcp, sysup, etc will automatically install a newer version of mrtg which will break it.

Follow the extra steps at the end to tell up2date to ignore mrtg updates.

Thanks for the update!

mrtg is now working

Great HowTo by the way!

Thank you

Hi,

Please change the up2date, should be option 8. pkgSkipList

Thanks,

Mark

:confused:

RHEL 3 and cPanel
up2date --configure
Option 8 = noSSLServerURL
Option 9 = pkgSkipList

This is my option list:

8. noSSLServerURL http://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC
9. pkgSkipList ['httpd*', 'perl*', 'mysql*', 'php*', 'mrtg*']
10. storageDir /var/spool/up2date
11. adminAddress ['root@localhost']

So, on mine it is nine. I guess I'll edit it to reflect which one to edit by text.

That's bizarre! RHEL 3 and cPanel here......


7. noSSLServerURL http://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC
8. pkgSkipList ['kernel*', 'httpd', 'perl*', 'mrtg*']
9. storageDir /var/spool/up2date

Work that one out!

My options are the same as Got-Hosting

Go figure Interesting to say the least!

from WHM install this package:

gnome-libs


How can i do that?

Under the software section, Install an RPM.

Can this be used on a plain RH 3.0 Ent or is it for only cpanel?

If the latter, anywhere to get it for RH 3.0 Ent.?


EDIT: I might be barking up the wrong thread here. Im looking for basic cpu and mem usage stuff.

gpan's mrtg rpm is specifically for cpanel. I would imagine that some of it would work, but many of the cpanel specific items, such as the mail stuff would not work.

Do you know if this would work on RH9 w/ Cpanel??

Thanks

Yes, these are essentially the same steps I followed for RH9.

Cool thank you!

worked like a charm

I should add a warning, that with the MyDoom virus, the mail stats portions were really dragging down my server (p4 2 gig) and I had to comment them out. If anyone else has that problem let me know and I'll post the fix.

Shutting down MRTG: [ OK ]
Starting MRTG: Daemonizing MRTG ..

No errors, but /mrtg wont show me anything. Top says it is running though. I can't find any config in httpd.conf also ...

There won't be anything in the httpd.conf file.

If http://host.name.com/mrtg/ doesn't work. try http://xx.xx.xx.xx/mrtg/

Also, on some machines, leaving off the trailing / will make it not work.

Still nothing...

Did you get any errors when you started it?

Did you restart it at least three times?

What is your hostname/ip?

I keep getting this in SSH session

ls: /var/spool/exim/input/*-H: No such file or directory

Also, will MRTG start on reboot?

Check...




I have pmed you my ip.

That problem is covered in the third reply to this thread.

sorry. my bad. should have known better. :o

Are you running cpanel?

RHEL and cpanel yes.

That is very odd. Have you cahnged the document root?

The IP address you gave me should have given me the default cpanel page. Instead I got something different.

Something is very odd about your server, but if you changed the document root for the IP you supplied me, then it will not work. the RPM installs the mrtg files in /usr/local/apache/htdocs. If you look in there you should see an mrtg directory.

I think the issue probably stems from a changed document root.

DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/htdocs


The dir mrtg excist. So it's a apache config thing. When i go to my server ip, i see the first listed site....

You need a virtualhost entry for your server hostname. It should be the virst virtualhost entry in the httpd.conf file and should look something like this:


BytesLog domlogs/host.name.com-bytes_log
ServerName host.name.com
DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/htdocs


And it should be right after the namevirtualhost directive with the main server IP.

there is a 404 on the RPM now

got the new one from ur site

http://jacob.got-hosting.com/mrtg-2.9.17-1...cpanel.i386.rpm

Same problem here: link is dead. Could anybody please post the required rpm?

Jan Derk

i just posted it above ^^^

will this start when the box is restarted?

one more thing, where is the cfg file to edit the settings? I looked at a couple but didn't appear that they were it.

I fixed the original post to indicate the proper link.

Yes, it will start automatically on reboot.

The config file is located in /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg.

Jon

Doh. Stupid question. There is nothing listed under install rpm section in my cpanel, and rebuild rpm db doesnt do anything to it either. all blanks.

any ideas?

You probably have a broken up2date setup. EV1 is getting famous for that.

From SSH type up2date -l and if it returns something about excessive use or licensing or some such sillines, put in a trouble ticket to EV! adn they will fix it.

I did everything right and no errors, while in http://host.name.com/mrtg/ , I only see text , there is no charts al all, why ?

Finally see the chart, I now know you should wait, wait about 10~20 minutes (it depends) to see the chart, I guess it need some scripts to grep some data to produce the chart.

I found this is very waste cpu resources, makes your server high load cause the "grep" keeps running all the time.

Is there a way to get rid of the email total ?

You can edit that portion out of the mrtg.cfg file.

The way I got around it was to change the log rotation on the exim logs from weekly to daily.

Hi!
Thanks for reply but, these 2 methods you teach me are beyond my knoledge, can you teach me more ?
1. How to edit the mrtg.cfg file ?
I try add an comment before some lines, don't work.
for example:
#Options[MAIL-HOST-email-totals]:gauge,noinfo

2. How to change the log rotation on the exim logs ?

now this one doesnt work

Yeah, that was two servers ago.

http://joseph.got-servers.net/mrtg-2.9.17-...cpanel.i386.rpm

Original post soon to be updated.

I installed this, it's quite cool thanks, few questions:

The error comes because that path is wrong I think, the exim 4.34 path is similar, like /var/spool/exim/exim_input - can this be changed?

Also, why does up2date break it?

thanks,

Adrian.