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	sudo apt-get -y install mrtg		sudo apt-get -y install mrtg

	As sysop, copy the image files from MRTG (in /usr/share/mrtg) to your ../spider/html/mrtg. MRTG can make many graphs, and it's possible to select which you ~~don't~~ and don't want, but initially it's worth getting them all. At the console run the command:		As sysop, copy the image files from MRTG (in /usr/share/mrtg) to your ../spider/html/mrtg. MRTG can make many graphs, and it's possible to select which you do and don't want, but initially it's worth getting them all. At the console run the command:

	mrtg all		mrtg all

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Complete scrub based on Mike G3YPP's notes

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	===Generic installation===		===Generic installation===

	~~From version 1~~.~~50, you can use the freeware software~~ MRTG to ~~produce really nice~~ graphical ~~statistics on your web site~~. ~~For an~~ example ~~try http~~://~~www~~.~~gb7mbc~~.~~net~~/mrtg/stats.html.		The Multi Router Traffic Grapher ([https://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/ MRTG]) uses network traffic to provide a graphical representation of cluster traffic. An example can be seen with the [https://dxc.mx0nca.uk/mrtg/stats.html node statistics for MX0NCA]

	~~The following should help you get~~ it all ~~working~~.		Setting up a web environment such as Apache2 is outside the scope of this page, and whilst MRTG can be downloaded from its [https://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/download.en.html website], it can generally be installed as a Linux package. Under Debian the package is called mrtg, installing it this way will ensure that all dependencies are installed. Using the root account at the Linux prompt:

	~~First you need to download the latest version of MRTG from http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/~~mrtg~~/. You will also need the following files..~~		sudo apt-get update
			sudo apt-get -y install mrtg

	~~libpng-1~~.0.14.~~tar~~.gz		As sysop, copy the image files from MRTG (in /usr/share/mrtg) to your ../spider/html/mrtg. MRTG can make many graphs, and it's possible to select which you don't and don't want, but initially it's worth getting them all. At the console run the command:
	~~zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz~~
	~~gd-1.8.3.tar.gz~~

	Login to your machine as the root user, put all the downloaded files in /usr/local/src/ (or wherever you prefer) and untar and compile them. All the information to compile and install these sources come with them. After compilation and installation, ~~you will find MRTG in /usr/local/~~mrtg~~-2.~~		mrtg all

	~~Now copy~~ all ~~the files in /usr/local/src/mrtg-2.9.22/images/ to /spider/html/mrtg/~~

	~~You now need to make 2 symbolic links like below...~~

	~~ln -s /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/mrtg /usr/bin/mrtg~~
	~~ln -s /usr/local/mrtg-2/lib/mrtg2 /usr/lib/mrtg2~~

	~~Now login to~~ the ~~cluster with your~~ sysop ~~callsign and~~ run the command ~~"mrtg all".~~		Then at the Linux command prompt, as sysop, in ../spider/html/mrtg run the command below putting your node callsign in place of <node-name>

	~~Now you are nearly there!~~ ~~Login as the sysop user and change to the~~ /~~spider~~/~~html~~/mrtg~~/ directory. Now run the command indexmaker as shown below..~~.		indexmaker --output stats.html --columns=1 --title "Node statistics for <node-name>" ../../mrtg/mrtg.cfg

	~~indexmaker --output stats.html --columns=1 --title "MRTG statistics for GB7DJK" .~~./../~~mrtg~~/~~mrtg.cfg~~		Your web server needs to know where the files are to publish, using the link below is one approach. As the sysop, in /home/sysop/ run the following command

	~~Changing the callsign for your own cluster callsign of course!~~		sudo ln -s /spider/html/mrtg /var/www/<domain name>/public_html

	~~And finally you need to login as~~ the ~~root user and create one last symbolic link~~. ~~Where this points will depend on where your~~ html ~~documents are kept. For RedHat systems you use...~~		Your browser should now see the graphs at http(s)://<domain-name>/mrtg/stats.html

	~~ln -s /home/sysop/spider/html/mrtg /home/httpd/html/mrtg~~		To get refreshed graphs every 5 minutes, add the following line into your dxspider crontab:-

	~~and for SuSE systems...~~

	~~ln -s /home/sysop/spider/html/mrtg /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/mrtg~~

	~~If you now point your browser to your website as below it should all be happening!~~

	~~http://www.xxx.xxx/mrtg/stats.html~~

	~~Of course, to~~ get ~~the stats to update~~, ~~you need to~~ add ~~some information in~~ the ~~spider~~ crontab ~~file as below...~~

	# Update stats for mrtg on website		# Update stats for mrtg on website
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	This will update the site every 5 minutes.		This will update the site every 5 minutes.

	~~===Ubuntu 8.04 Installation===~~

	To install on the latest versions of Ubuntu (8.04 at the time of writing) is really very simple. Either use Synaptic or apt-get install to get the latest mrtg. Once you have done this and it is installed, do the following..

	~~chmod 01777 /var/lock mrtg /var/lib/mrtg~~

	~~Now log into the cluster using your sysop console and issue the command..~~

	~~mrtg all~~

	~~log in at the command line as the user 'sysop' and type the following commands..~~

	~~cd /spider/html/mrtg~~

	~~indexmaker --output stats.html --columns=1 --title "MRTG statistics for GB7DJK" ../../mrtg/mrtg.cfg~~

	~~Making sure you change GB7DJK to your own cluster node call!~~

	~~Finally create the following symlink~~

	~~ln -s /home/sysop/spider/html/mrtg /var/www/mrtg~~

	~~and all should now be working! You can create a crontab entry as above.~~

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DXSpider Documentation>G0vgs: Created page with "==Web based statistics== ===Generic installation=== From version 1.50, you can use the freeware software MRTG to produce really nice graphical statistics on your web site. For an example try http://www.gb7mbc.net/mrtg/stats.html. The following should help you get it all working. First you need to download the latest version of MRTG from http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/. You will also need the following files.. libpng-1.0.14.tar.gz zlib-1.1.4.tar...."

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Created page with "==Web based statistics== ===Generic installation=== From version 1.50, you can use the freeware software MRTG to produce really nice graphical statistics on your web site. For an example try http://www.gb7mbc.net/mrtg/stats.html. The following should help you get it all working. First you need to download the latest version of MRTG from http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/. You will also need the following files.. libpng-1.0.14.tar.gz zlib-1.1.4.tar...."

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==Web based statistics==

===Generic installation===

From version 1.50, you can use the freeware software MRTG to produce really nice graphical statistics on your web site. For an example try http://www.gb7mbc.net/mrtg/stats.html.

The following should help you get it all working.

First you need to download the latest version of MRTG from http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/. You will also need the following files..

libpng-1.0.14.tar.gz
zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz
gd-1.8.3.tar.gz

Login to your machine as the root user, put all the downloaded files in /usr/local/src/ (or wherever you prefer) and untar and compile them. All the information to compile and install these sources come with them. After compilation and installation, you will find MRTG in /usr/local/mrtg-2.

Now copy all the files in /usr/local/src/mrtg-2.9.22/images/ to /spider/html/mrtg/

You now need to make 2 symbolic links like below...

ln -s /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/mrtg /usr/bin/mrtg
ln -s /usr/local/mrtg-2/lib/mrtg2 /usr/lib/mrtg2

Now login to the cluster with your sysop callsign and run the command "mrtg all".

Now you are nearly there! Login as the sysop user and change to the /spider/html/mrtg/ directory. Now run the command indexmaker as shown below...

indexmaker --output stats.html --columns=1 --title "MRTG statistics for GB7DJK" ../../mrtg/mrtg.cfg

Changing the callsign for your own cluster callsign of course!

And finally you need to login as the root user and create one last symbolic link. Where this points will depend on where your html documents are kept. For RedHat systems you use...

ln -s /home/sysop/spider/html/mrtg /home/httpd/html/mrtg

and for SuSE systems...

ln -s /home/sysop/spider/html/mrtg /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/mrtg

If you now point your browser to your website as below it should all be happening!

http://www.xxx.xxx/mrtg/stats.html

Of course, to get the stats to update, you need to add some information in the spider crontab file as below...

# Update stats for mrtg on website
00,05,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * run_cmd('mrtg all')

This will update the site every 5 minutes.

===Ubuntu 8.04 Installation===

To install on the latest versions of Ubuntu (8.04 at the time of writing) is really very simple. Either use Synaptic or apt-get install to get the latest mrtg. Once you have done this and it is installed, do the following..

chmod 01777 /var/lock mrtg /var/lib/mrtg

Now log into the cluster using your sysop console and issue the command..

mrtg all

log in at the command line as the user 'sysop' and type the following commands..

cd /spider/html/mrtg

indexmaker --output stats.html --columns=1 --title "MRTG statistics for GB7DJK" ../../mrtg/mrtg.cfg

Making sure you change GB7DJK to your own cluster node call!

Finally create the following symlink

ln -s /home/sysop/spider/html/mrtg /var/www/mrtg

and all should now be working! You can create a crontab entry as above.