Cheshire Cat Computing

I am using the MRTG Bundle install on a Windows system, and it works very well!

I now want to add some graphs that will be based on CSV files that are created automatically.

Can you let me know how to construct a .cfg file to do this?
I've tried a number of things, but none of them work...

Many thanks, Andy E.

This is not the correct use of MRTG -- with MRTG, it needs to be able to ask every 5min (depending on configuration) and be given a pair of values to add to the RRD, which are then later graphed. You cannot give a whole set of values and have them processed at once.

What you could do is to write aplugin for MRTG that processes a CSV file containing one timepoint's data, and have this run every 5min to add the next value.

Or, you could create a 'dummy' cfg file used only by the frontend, and then omit MRTG entirely and write your own script to inject the data into the RRD directly -- although in this case, you would need ot be very careful to make sure the RRD is of the same format and configuration as an MRTG-generated one. This would require a fair amount of coding skill, though.

If you just want to generate a graph from a CSV file of values, you'd probably be better off using Excel or similar...

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11

The way i set this up was:
Run the perfmon.exe and have it pull the counters you want (cpu, mem, nic, iis, avg disk queue length) at 5 min lets say.
Run the perl mkcfg.pl server.csv >server.cfg
create a folder at the top of the .cfg etc (i always have to edit the .csv file name and 100 to 1000000)
Run the perl indexmaker server.html >server.cfg
edit the .html to make sure the file/src/file point to the correct locations.
Created a batch file mrtgsnap.bat that has the perl mrtg server.cfg
Created a scheduled task to run every 5 minutes and call that batch file which runs the perl mrtg server.cfg