How can I view MRTG graphs remotely?

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jbruyet
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How can I view MRTG graphs remotely?

Post by jbruyet »

Hey all, I've been looking around trying to find a way to view my MTRG graphs remotely and not having much luck. I tried manually setting up html file access through sym links but no joy (and since I don't know Apache I gave up on that pretty quickly). I even tried a full UNC path in my browser to an MRTG html file but still no joy. I did find a program, MRTG Viewer, that sounds like it might provide the access I'm looking for but since I don't have a whole lot of experience with Linux the following line persuaded me to look elsewhere:
The author assumes that you know at least the basics of Unix system, MRTG, Apache, Postgresql, and Javascript among others
How are the rest of you viewing the MRTG graphs without having to log onto the server itself?

And where's my closing quotation mark? The slash quote notation is there.

Thanks,

Joe B
jbruyet
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Re: How can I view MRTG graphs remotely?

Post by jbruyet »

Well, I set my mrtg folder up as a Samba share and now it's viewable from my workstation. I set the path statement in smb.conf to /path/to/mrtg, restarted the smbd and nmbd services, changed the folder ownership to me (I don't know how to do groups yet -- that's coming later) and there it was. I'm sure there are ways of seeing these files that are a little more "polished" but at least it's working. Now I just need to create an MRTG web page that points to each port that I want to monitor.

Thanks,

Joe B
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