MRTG

I recently got a mail from someone (hi Dennis!) about how the MRTG totals script works on the MRTG site. For those too lazy to look at the totals page, the general idea is that the total transfer statistics for a device - in this case my ADSL router - are displayed all on one page. In this way you can see easily how much data was transferred either by month or by day for any period during which the mrtg_total script has been collating data.

I use a perl script written by a chap called Josef Wendel to collate the stats pages from a daily cron job. The stats can then be displayed using a PHP script, again written by the same bloke.

I can't find a specific reference to Josef's home site, but I'm sure googling for 'josef wendel perl mrtg' should turn something up (or even just google for 'mrtg_total.pl', the name of the script. Just in case I'll add the scripts in the extended entry here anyway, I'm sure Josef won't mind given I just mentioned his name about half a dozen times here in credit!!!

Excellent script thanks for that Josef.

EDIT:
Yes a quick google for mrtg_total.pl came up with Josef's home page for the mrtg total script. Go google! See over there for more 'authoratative' info.

See the extended article for the complete mrtg_total.pl script and associated PHP frontend script.

Ok I just finished an 'all in one' MRTG stats page for the munk.me.uk network - including stats for the alcatel speedtouch 510 router and the server munk.me.uk.

Visit the MRTG site here:

MRTG Statistics For munk.me.uk

Also see here for info on how the stats are generated:

Using MRTG To Monitor Various Things

I recently received an email about logging uptime statistics for the Alcatel Speedtouch 510 router from Au Yong Tien Chee - see his blog entry about it here.

Unfortunately the ST510v3 does not provide SNMP support, so obtaining logging and other statistics for use with MRTG is a bit more long-winded. Au Yong kindly offered a perl script that obtains the bandwidth transfer in/out in bytes, suitable for use with MRTG - The Multi Router Traffic Grapher.

I incorporated Au Yong's script into the script I currently use to monitor my FreeBSD server uptime, number of users online, the uptime of the Alcatel Speedtouch 510 and also the memory usage of the webcp daemon which I use to allow users to administer their websites. All of these can be viewed here:

mrtg.munk.me.uk

The complete perl script for obtaining the data via MRTG can be found in the extended article below.

EDIT: THe original article including a perl script to obtain tx data for mrtg/rrdtool is here.