CFGMAKER(1)                          mrtg                          CFGMAKER(1)



NAME
       cfgmaker - Creates mrtg.cfg files (for mrtg-2.17.4)

SYNOPSIS
       cfgmaker [options] [community@]router [[options] [community@]router
       ...]

OPTIONS
        --ifref=nr    interface references by Interface Number (default)
        --ifref=ip                     ... by Ip Address
        --ifref=eth                        ... by Ethernet Number
        --ifref=descr                      ... by Interface Description
        --ifref=name                       ... by Interface Name
        --ifref=type                       ... by Interface Type
                       You may also use multiple options separated by commas,
                      in which case the first available one is used:
                      e.g.  --ifref=ip,name,nr

        --ifdesc=nr       interface description uses Interface Number (default)
        --ifdesc=ip                        ... uses Ip Address
        --ifdesc=eth                       ... uses Ethernet Number
        --ifdesc=descr                     ... uses Interface Description
        --ifdesc=name                      ... uses Interface Name
        --ifdesc=catname                   ... uses CatOS Interface Name
        --ifdesc=ppname                    ... uses Passport Port Name
        --ifdesc=alias                     ... uses Interface Alias
        --ifdesc=type                      ... uses Interface Type
                       You may also use multiple options separated by commas,
                      in which case the first available one is used:
                      e.g.  --ifdesc=catname,ppname,descr,alias,ip,name,nr

        --if-filter=f     Test every interface against filter f to decide wether
                          or not to include that interface into the collection.
                          Currently f is being evaluated as a Perl expression
                          and it's truth value is used to reject or accept the
                          interface.
                          (Experimental, under development, might change)

        --if-template=templatefile
                          Replace the normal target entries for the interfaces
                          with an entry as specified by the contents in the file
                          templatefile.  The file is supposed to contain Perl
                          code to be executed to generate the lines for the
                          target in the configuration file.
                          (Experimental, under development, might change)

        --host-template=templatefile
                          In addition to creating targets for a host's interfaces
                          do also create targets for the host itself as specified
                          by the contents in the file templatefile.  The file is
                          supposed to contain Perl code to be executed to generate
                          the lines for the host related targets (such as CPU,
                          ping response time measurements etc.) in the config-
                          uration file.
                          (Experimental, under development, might change)

        --global "x: a"   add global config entries

        --no-down         do not look at admin or opr status of interfaces

        --show-op-down    show interfaces which are operatively down

        --zero-speed=spd  use this speed in bits-per-second as the interface
                          speed for all interfaces that return a speed of 0
                          via ifSpeed/ifHighSpeed.  100Mbps = 100000000

        --subdirs=format  give each router its own subdirectory, naming each per
                          "format", in which HOSTNAME and SNMPNAME will be
                          replaced by the values of those items -- for instance,
                          --subdirs=HOSTNAME or --subdirs="HOSTNAME (SNMPNAME)"

        --noreversedns    do not reverse lookup ip numbers

        --community=cmty  Set the default community string to "cmty" instead of
                          "public".

        --enable-ipv6     Enable IPv6 support, if the required libraries are
                          present. Numeric IPv6 addresses must be enclosed
                          in square brackets, e.g. public@[2001:760:4::1]:161

        --use-16bit       Use 16bit SNMP request IDs to query all routers.

        --snmp-options=:[<port>][:[<tmout>][:[<retr>][:[<backoff>][:<ver>]]]]

                          Specify default SNMP options to be appended to all
                          routers following.  Individual fields can be empty.
                          Routers following might override some or all of the
                  options given to --snmp-options.

        --dns-domain=domain
                  Specifies a domain to append to the name of all
                  routers following.

        --nointerfaces    Don't do generate any configuration lines for interfaces,
                          skip the step of gathering interface information and
                          don't run any interface template code.

        --interfaces      Generate configuration lines for interfaces (this is the
                          default).  The main purpose of this option is to negate
                          an --nointerfaces appearing earlier on the command line.

        --help            brief help message
        --man             full documentation
        --version         print the version of cfgmaker

        --output=file     output filename default is STDOUT

DESCRIPTION
       Cfgmaker creates MRTG configuration files based on information pulled
       from a router or another SNMP manageable device.

       [community@]router

       Community is the community name of the device you want to create a
       configuration for. If not specified, it defaults to 'public'; you might
       want to try this first if you do not know the community name of a
       device. If you are using the wrong community name you will get no
       response from the device.

       Router is the DNS name or the IP number of an SNMP-managable device.
       Following the name you can specify 6 further options separated by
       colons.  The full syntax looks like this:

       router[:[prt][:[tmout][:[retr][:[backoff][:vers]]]]]

       Of special interest may be the last parameter, vers.  If you set this
       to '2' then your device will be queried with SNMP version 2 requests.
       This allows you to poll the 64 bit traffic counters in the device and
       will thus work much better with fast interfaces (no more counter
       overrun).  Note that the order in which the routers are specified on
       the command line do matter as the same order is used when the
       configuration file is generated.  The first specified router has it's
       configuration lines genrated first, followed by the lines belonging to
       the next router and so on.

       Note that the first line of the generated cfg file will contain all the
       commandline options you used for generating it. This is to allow for
       the easy 'regeneration' in case you want to add newhosts or make some
       other global change.

   Configuration
       Except for the --output and --global options, all options affect only
       the routers following them on the command line.  If an option specified
       earlier on the command line reappears later on the command line with
       another value, the new value overrides the old value as far as
       remaining routers are concerned.  This way options might be tailored
       for groups of routers or for individual routers.

       See --output and --global for how their behaviour is affected by where
       or how many times they appear on the command line.

       See the Examples below on how to set an option differently for multiple
       routers.

       --help
           Print a brief help message and exit.

       --man
           Prints the manual page and exits.

       --version
           Print the version of cfgmaker.  This should match the version of
           MRTG for which config files are being created.

       --ifref nr|ip|eth|descr|name
           Select the interface identification method.  Default is nr which
           identifies the router interfaces by their number.  Unfortunately
           the interface numbering scheme in an SNMP tree can change. Some
           routers change their numbering when new interfaces are added,
           others change thier numbering every full moon just for fun.

           To work around this sad problem MRTG can identify interfaces by 4
           other properties. None of these works for all interfaces, but you
           should be able to find one which does fine for you. Note that
           especially ethernet addrsses can be problematic as some routers
           have the same ethernet address on most of their interface cards.

           Select ip to identify the interface by its IP number. Use eth to
           use the ethernet address for identification. Use descr to use the
           Interface description. Or use name to use the Interface name.

           You can specify multiple properties if you wish, separated by
           commas.  In this case, cfgmaker will use the first item in the list
           which can provide unique identification.  This allows you to
           specify, for example, to use IP address and to use ifName if this
           is not defined:
             --ifref ip,name

           If your chosen method does not allow unique interface
           identification on the device you are querying, cfgmaker will tell
           you about it.

       --ifdesc nr|ip|eth|descr|name|type|alias
           Select what to use as the description of the interface.  The
           description appears in the "Title[]" property for the target as
           well as the text header in the HTML code defined in the target's
           "PageTop[]".  Default is to use nr which is just the interface
           number which isn't always useful to the viewer of the graphs.

           There are 6 other properties which could be used.  Use ip if you
           want to use the interface's IP-address.  Use eth if you want to use
           the interface's ethernet address.  If you want a better
           description, you can use either descr, name or alias.  Exactly what
           each of these do varies between different equipment so you might
           need to experiment.  For instance, for a serial interface on a
           Cisco router running IOS using name might result in "S0" being the
           interface description , descr might result in "Serial0" and alias
           might result in "Link to HQ" (provided that is what is used as the
           interface's "description" in the router's configuration).

           Finally, if you want to describe the interface by it's Btype (i.e
           "ethernetCSMA", "propPointtoPoint" etc) you can use type.

           You can specify multiple properties if you wish, separated by
           commas.  In this case, cfgmaker will use the first item in the list
           which is available for this interface.  This allows you to specify,
           for example, to use any of the different aliases in order of
           preference.

       --if-filter 'filter-expression'
           First of all, this is under some development and is experimental.

           Use this if you want to have better control over what interfaces
           gets included into the configuration.  The filter-expression is
           evaluated as a piece of Perl code and is expected to return a truth
           value.  If true, include the interface and if false, exclude the
           interface.

           For a further discussion on how these filters work, see the section
           "Details on Filters" below.

       --if-template template-file
           First of all, this is under some development and is experimental.

           Use this if you want to control what the line for each target
           should look like in the configuration file.  The contents of the
           file template-file will be evaluated as a Perl program which
           generates the lines using certain variables for input and output.

           For a further discussion on how these templates work, see the
           section "Details on Temaplates" below.

       --host-template template-file
           First of all, this is under some development and is experimental.

           Use this if you want to have some extra targets related to the host
           itself such as CPU utilization, ping response time to the host,
           number of busy modems etc.  The contents of the file template-file
           will be evaluated once per host as a Perl program which generates
           the lines using certain variables for input and output.

           For a further discussion on how these templates work, see the
           section "Details on Templates" below.

       --community community-string
           Use this to set the community for the routers following on the
           command line to community-string.  Individual routers might
           overrride this community string by using the syntax
           community@router.

       --enable-ipv6
           This option enables IPv6 support. It requires the appropriate perl
           modules; if they are not found then IPv6 is disabled (see the ipv6
           documentation).

           cfgmaker will use IPv6 or IPv4 depending on the target. If the
           target is a numeric address, the protocol depends on the type of
           address. If the target is a hostname, cfgmaker will try to resolve
           the name first to an IPv6 address then to an IPv4 address.

           IPv6 numeric addresses must be specified between square braces.

           For example:

            cfgmaker --enable-ipv6 [2001:760:4::1]:165:::2

           If the target has both an IPv6 address and an IPv4 address with the
           same hostname, cfgmaker first queries the target using IPv6 and
           falls back to IPv4 if it fails. This is useful for targets which
           don't support SNMP over IPv6.

       --use-16bit
           This option forces the use of 16bit SNMP request IDs.  Some broken
           SNMP agents do not accept 32bit request IDs.  Try to avoid this
           option as much as possible, complain to your agent vendor instead.

       --snmp-options  :[port][:[timeout][:[retries][:[backoff][:version]]]]
           Use this to set the default SNMP options for all routers following
           on the command line.  Individual values might be omitted as well as
           trailing colons.  Note that routers might override individual (or
           all) values specified by --snmp-options by using the syntax

           router[:[port][:[timeout][:[retries][:[backoff][:version]]]]]

       --global "bla: abc"
           Use this to add global options to the generated config file.  You
           can call --global several times to add multiple options.  The line
           will appear in the configuration just before the config for the
           next router appearing on the command line.

            --global "workdir: /home/mrtg"

           If you want some default Options you might want to put

            --global "options[_]: growright,bits"

           Specifying --global after the last router on the command line will
           create a line in the configuration file which will appear after all
           the routers.

       --noreversedns
           Do not try to reverse lookup IP numbers ... a must for DNS free
           environments.

       --no-down
           Normally cfgmaker will not include interfaces which are marked
           anything but administratively and operationally UP. With this
           switch you get them all.

       --show-op-down
           Include interfaces which are operatively down.

       --zero-speed speed
           Assign this speed in bits-per-second to all interfaces which return
           0 for ifSpeed and ifHighSpeed.  Some switches, notably Foundry
           equipment, return a speed of zero for some interfaces.  For
           example, to have all interfaces reporting zero set to 100Mbps, use
           --zero-speed=100000000.

       --subdirs format
           Give each router its own subdirectory for the HTML and graphics (or
           .rrd) files.  The directory name is the given format string with a
           couple of pattern replacements.  The string "HOSTNAME" will be
           replaced by the hostname of the router (however you specified it on
           the cfgmaker commandline -- it may be an actual hostname or just an
           IP address), and "SNMPNAME" will be replaced with the device's idea
           of its own name (the same name that appears on the right side of
           the "Title" lines).  For instance, a call like:

            cfgmaker --subdirs=HOSTNAME__SNMPNAME public@10.10.0.18

           would result in the generation of lines looking something like:

            Directory[10.10.0.18_1]: 10.10.0.18__fp2200-bothrip-1.3

       --output file
           Write the output from cfgmaker into the file file. The default is
           to use "STDOUT". --output is expected to appear only once on the
           command line. If used multiple times, the file specified by the
           last --output will be used.

       --nointerfaces
           Don't generate configuration lines for interfaces.

           This makes cfgmaker skip all steps related to interfaces which
           means it will not do any polling of the router to retrieve
           interface information which speeds up the execution of cfgmaker and
           it will neither run any interface templates.

       --interfaces
           This makes cfgmaker generate configuration lines for interfaces
           (the default behaviour).

           The main usage of this option is to negate an --nointerfaces
           appearing earlier on the command line.

   SNMP V3 Options
       Cfgmaker supports SNMP V3 using the Net:SNMP perl module.  There are
       optional parameters affecting SNMP operation.

       --enablesnmpv3 {yes|no}
           The --enablesnmpv3 option is an optional flag to check for the
           presence of the Net::SNMP libraries.  Cfgmaker will try to
           determine whether this flag is required and will set the values
           automatically.

       SNMPv3 Arguments

       A SNMP context is a collection of management information accessible by
       a SNMP entity.  An item of management information may exist in more
       than one context and a SNMP entity potentially has access to many
       contexts.  The combination of a contextEngineID and a contextName
       unambiguously identifies a context within an administrative domain.  In
       a SNMPv3 message, the contextEngineID and contextName are included as
       part of the scopedPDU.  All methods that generate a SNMP message
       optionally take a --contextengineid and --contextname argument to
       configure these fields.

       Context Engine ID
           The --contextengineid argument expects a hexadecimal string
           representing the desired contextEngineID.  The string must be 10 to
           64 characters (5 to 32 octets) long and can be prefixed with an
           optional "0x".  Once the --contextengineid is specified it stays
           with the object until it is changed again or reset to default by
           passing in the undefined value.  By default, the contextEngineID is
           set to match the authoritativeEngineID of the authoritative SNMP
           engine.

       Context Name
           The contextName is passed as a string which must be 0 to 32 octets
           in length using the --contextname argument.  The contextName stays
           with the object until it is changed.  The contextName defaults to
           an empty string which represents the "default" context.

       User-based Security Model Arguments

       The User-based Security Model (USM) used by SNMPv3 requires that a
       securityName be specified using the --username argument.  The creation
       of a Net::SNMP object with the version set to SNMPv3 will fail if the
       --username argument is not present.  The --username argument expects a
       string 1 to 32 octets in length.

       Different levels of security are allowed by the User-based Security
       Model which address authentication and privacy concerns.  A SNMPv3
       target will derive the security level (securityLevel) based on which of
       the following arguments are specified.

       By default a securityLevel of 'noAuthNoPriv' is assumed.  If the
       --authkey or --authpassword arguments are specified, the securityLevel
       becomes 'authNoPriv'.  The --authpassword argument expects a string
       which is at least 1 octet in length.  Optionally, the --authkey
       argument can be used so that a plain text password does not have to be
       specified in a script.  The --authkey argument expects a hexadecimal
       string produced by localizing the password with the
       authoritativeEngineID for the specific destination device.  The
       "snmpkey" utility included with the Net::SNMP  distribution can be used
       to create the hexadecimal string (see snmpkey).

       Two different hash algorithms are defined by SNMPv3 which can be used
       by the Security Model for authentication.  These algorithms are
       HMAC-MD5-96 "MD5" (RFC 1321) and HMAC-SHA-96 "SHA-1" (NIST FIPS PUB
       180-1).   The default algorithm used by the module is HMAC-MD5-96.
       This behavior can be changed by using the --authprotocol argument.
       This argument expects either the string 'md5' or 'sha' to be passed to
       modify the hash algorithm.

       By specifying the arguments --privkey or --privpassword the
       securityLevel associated with the object becomes 'authPriv'.  According
       to SNMPv3, privacy requires the use of authentication.  Therefore, if
       either of these two arguments are present and the --authkey or
       --authpassword arguments are missing, the creation of the object fails.
       The --privkey and --privpassword arguments expect the same input as the
       --authkey and --authpassword arguments respectively.

       The User-based Security Model described in RFC 3414 defines a single
       encryption protocol to be used for privacy.  This protocol, CBC-DES
       "DES" (NIST FIPS PUB 46-1), is used by default or if the string 'des'
       is passed to the --privprotocol argument.  By working with the Extended
       Security Options Consortium http://www.snmp.com/eso/, the module also
       supports additional protocols which have been defined in draft
       specifications.  The draft
       http://www.snmp.com/eso/draft-reeder-snmpv3-usm-3desede-00.txt defines
       the support of CBC-3DES-EDE "Triple-DES" (NIST FIPS 46-3) in the User-
       based Security Model.  This protocol can be selected using the
       --privprotocol argument with the string '3desede'.  The draft
       http://www.snmp.com/eso/draft-blumenthal-aes-usm-04.txt describes the
       use of CFB128-AES-128/192/256 "AES" (NIST FIPS PUB 197) in the USM. The
       three AES encryption protocols, differentiated by their key sizes, can
       be selected by passing 'aescfb128', 'aescfb192', or 'aescfb256' to the
       -privprotocol argument.

   Details on Filters
       The purpose of the filters is to decide which interfaces to accept and
       which interfaces to reject.  This decision is done for each interface
       by evaluating the filter expression as a piece of Perl code and
       investigating the result of the evaluation.  If true, accept the
       interface otherwise reject it.

       When working with filters, remember that Perl has it's own idea of what
       truth and false is.  The empty string "" and the string "0" are false,
       all other strings are true.  This further imples that any integer value
       of 0 is false as well as any undef value.  It also implies that all
       references are considered true.

       As the filter is evaluated as a Perl expression, several useful
       constructs in Perl are worth mentioning:

       Expressions might be grouped by using parentheses "()".  Expressions
       might be combined using boolean operators such as the following:

       "and" (equivalent with "&&")
           Boolean "and" of the two expressions, is only true if both
           expressions are true.  Example: expression1 and expression2

       "or" (equivalent with "||")
           Boolean "or" of the two expressions, is true if either or both
           expressions are true.  Example: expression1 or expression2

       "not" (equivalent with "!")
           Boolean negation of a single expression.  Example:  not expression
           .  Yet another example: !expression

       (For more details on this I recommend a book on Perl)

       Predefined Filter Variables

       To facilitate, there are a number of predefined values available to use
       in the filter.  Note that these variables are also available when
       templates interfaces are evaluated (but not host templates).

       Caveat:  All these variables' names begin with a dollar sign  ($),
       which is a syntactic requirement for scalar variables in Perl.  The
       danger here is that the dollar sign in many shells is an active
       character (often used for shell variables exactly as in Perl variables)
       so it is important to ensure that the Perl expression isn't evaluated
       by the command line shell as shell code before being passed to cfgmaker
       as command line arguments.  In shells like Bourne shell, ksh shell or
       bash shell, placing the entire expression within single qoutes will
       avoid such accidental evaluation:

        '--if-filter=($default_iftype && $if_admin)'

       $if_type
           This is an integer specifying the interface type as per the SNMP
           standards and as reported by the polled device.  A complete list of
           interface types would be impractical for this document , but there
           are a number predefined varables below.  Normally, cfgmaker puts in
           the target's PageTop this iftype value within paranthesis after the
           name of the interface type. (e.g "propPointToPointSerial (22)").

           Here's a list of some of the most common interface types by number:

              6 ethernetCsmacd
              7 iso88023Csmacd
              9 iso88025TokenRing
             15 fddi
             19 E1
             20 basicISDN
             21 primaryISDN
             22 propPointToPointSerial
             23 ppp
             24 softwareLoopback
             30 ds3
             32 frame-relay
             33 rs232
             37 atm
             39 sonet
             44 frameRelayService
             46 hssi
             49 aal5
             53 propVirtual
             62 Fast Ethernet (100BaseT)
             63 ISDN & X.25
             69 Full Duplex Fast Ethernet (100BaseFX)
             94 Asymetric Digital Subscriber Loop (ADSL)
            117 Gigabit Ethernet
            134 ATM Sub Interface

       $default
           True if and only if cfgmaker normally should accepted the interface
           based on the interfaces administrative and operational state
           (taking the flags --no-down and --show-op-down into account) and
           it's type (and a few other things).

       $default_ifstate
           True if and only if cfgmaker would have accepted the interface
           based on it's operational and administrative states (also taking
           into account the presence of the flags --no-down and
           --show-op-down).

       $default_iftype
           True if and only if cfgmaker would have accepted the interface
           based on it's type (and a few type specific details in addition).

       $if_admin
           True if and only if the interface is in an adminstrative up state.

       $if_oper
           True if and only if the interface is in an operational up state.

       A number of variables are also predefined to easily decide if an
       interface belong to a certain cathegory or not.  Below is all those
       variables listed together with which if_type numbers each variable will
       be true for.  Note that some variables refer to other variables as
       well.

       $if_is_ethernet
           True for ethernet interfaces (nr 6, 7, 26, 62, 69 and 117).

       $if_is_isdn
           True for various ISDN interface types (nr 20, 21, 63, 75, 76 and
           77)

       $if_is_dialup
           True for dial-up interfaces such as PPP as well as ISDN.  (nr 23,
           81, 82 and 108 in addition to the numbers of $if_is_isdn).

       $if_is_atm
           True for miscellaneous ATM related interface types (nr 37, 49, 107,
           105, 106, 114 and 134).

       $if_is_wan
           True for WAN interfaces point to point, Frame Relay and High Speed
           Serial ( 22,32,44,46)

       $if_is_lan
           True for LAN interfaces (8, 9, 11, 15, 26, 55, 59, 60 and 115 in
           addition to the numbers of $if_is_ethernet).

       $if_is_dsl
           True for ADSL, RDSL, HDSL and SDSL (nr 94, 95, 96, 97)

       $if_is_loopback
           True for software loopback interfaces (nr 24)

       $if_is_ciscovlan
           True for Cisco VLAN interfaces (interfaces with the word Vlan or
           VLAN in their ifdescs)

       $if_vlan_id
           Returns the vlan id associated with a specific port on Cisco
           Catalyst switches under both Catalyst OS and IOS, and 3Com
           switches.  If it is not a vlan interface, will return undef.

       $if_cisco_trunk
           Returns the trunking state of a specific port on Cisco Catalyst
           switches under both Catalyst OS and IOS.  Returns "1" if the
           interface is a trunk, undef otherwise.

       $if_MTU
           Returns the Maximum Transfer Unit associated with a specific port.

       Besides that, you can also use the variables defined for templates
       below.  Further, all the variables available in cfgmaker is at the
       scripts disposal even if the use of such features is discouraged.  More
       "shortcuts" in the form of variables and functions will be made
       available in the future instead.

       Examples on Filters

       The following filter will not affect which interfaces get's included or
       excluded, it will make cfgmaker behave as normally.

        '--if-filter=$default'

       The following filter will make cfgmaker exclude PPP (23) interfaces:

        '--if-filter=$default && $if_type!=23'

       The following filter will make cfgmaker behave as usual except that it
       will consider the operational state of an interface irrelevant but
       still reject all interfaces which are administratively down.

        '--if-filter=$if_admin && $default_iftype'

   Details on Templates
       The contents of the template files are evaluated as a Perl program.  A
       number or Perl variables are available for the program to read and
       others are used to be written to.

       As quite a few of the predefined variables has values which are are
       supposed to be used in HTML code some of them have an "HTML-escaped"
       variant, e.g $html_syslocation is the HTML escaped variant of
       $syslocation.  The HTML escaping means that the chars "<", ">" and "&"
       are replaced by "&lt;", "&gt;" and "&amp;" and that newlines embedded
       in the string are prepended with "<BR>" and appended with a space
       character (if a newline is last in the string it is not touched).

       Writable Template Variables

       These are the variables available to store the configuration lines in.
       Some of them are initialized prior to the evaluation of the template
       but such content normally is comments for inclusion in the final
       configuration file so those variables might be reset to the empty
       string in the template code to eliminate the comments.  The other way
       around is also possible, the contents of these variables might be
       extended with further information for various reasons such as debugging
       etc.

       Once the template has been evaluated, the following happens:  if the
       template is a interface template and the actual interface for some
       reason is rejected and thus needs to be commented out, all the lines in
       the variable $target_lines are turned into comments by adding a hash
       mark ("#") at their beginning.  Then all the variables $head_lines,
       $problem_lines , $target_lines and $separator_lines are concatenated
       together to form the lines to add to the configuration file.

       $target_lines
           This variable is the placeholder for the configuration lines
           created by the template.  $target_lines is predefined to be empty
           when the template code is evaluated.

       $head_lines
           This variable is intended to be the placeholder for the comment
           line appearing just before the target in the configuration file.
           It is initialized with that comment line before the evaluation of
           the template code and if the template doesn't modify $head_lines
           during evaluation, the comment will look like usual in the config
           file.

       $problem_lines
           This variable is intended to be the placholder for the comment
           lines describing any problems which might have been encountered
           when trying to add the target into the configuration.  For host
           templates it's normally not used and for those it's predefined as
           the empty string.  For interface templates $problem_lines is
           predefined with the error description comments which cfgmaker
           normally would use for rejected interfaces or as the empty string
           for accepted interfaces.

           It is possible to test against $problem_lines to find out if an
           interface will be included or rejected but this is not recommended.
           Test against $if_ok instead.

       $separator_lines
           This variable is the placeholder for the string to use as the
           separator between the code for individual targets.  The contents of
           this variable is put after each target (so the lines will appear
           after the end of the last target in the config as well).

       Predefined Template Variables

       All the variables below are available for interface templates to use.
       For host templates, only those listed under "Host and System Variables"
       are available.

       For interface templates the variables listed under "Predefined Filter
       Variables" are also available.

       Host and System Variables

       $router_name
           This is the fully qualified name for the router.  It is affected by
           the following items on the command line:  the router name itself
           and --dns-domain.

       $router_connect
           This is the reference string for the router being polled.  It is on
           the form community@router possibly followed by some snmp options.
           It is affected by the following items on the command line:  the
           router name itself, --community, --snmp-options and --dns-domain.
           (There's no HTML escaped variant available)

       $directory_name
           This variable should contain the directory name as cfgmaker
           normally would use as the value for the "Directory[]" directive.
           The value is determined by the --subdirs command line option.  If
           --subdirs isn't specified $directory_name will be the empty string.
           (There's no HTML escaped variant available)

       $syscontact
           This variable is the router's SNMP sysContact value.  (HTML escaped
           variant: $html_syscontact)

       $sysname
           This variable is the router's SNMP sysName value.  (No HTML escaped
           variant available)

       $syslocation
           This variable is the router's SNMP sysLocation value.  (HTML
           escaped variant: $html_syslocation)

       $sysdescr
           This variable is the router's SNMP sysDescr value.  It is normally
           not used by cfgmaker but might be useful in a template.  (HTML
           escaped variant: $html_sysdescr)

       Interface Target Related Variables

       $target_name
           This is what cfgmaker normally would use as the the name of the
           target.  The target name is what is found within the square
           brackets, "[]", for target directives.  (There's no HTML escaped
           variant available)

       $if_ref
           This the reference string for the interface.  It is expected to be
           used in the "Target[xyz]" directive to distinguish what interface
           to use.  The value of this variable is affected by the --ifref
           command line option.  It is normally used together with
           $router_connect.  (There's no HTML escaped variant available)

       $if_ok
           This variable is true if the interface is going to be included into
           the configuration file, otherwise false.  Don't test against other
           variables such as $problem_lines to find out if an interface will
           be rejected or not, use this $if_ok instead.

       $default_target_lines
           This variable contains all the target lines which cfgmaker by
           default outputs for this interface.  It's useful if you want to
           have the "standard target" but want to add some extra lines to it
           by using a template.

       By default cfgmaker uses the following directives for each target it
       generates: Target[], SetEnv[], MaxBytes[], Title[], PageTop[] and if
       there is any directory specified also the Directory[] directive.

       To facilitate the creation of templates which generates target configs
       which are similar to the default one, each of the above mentioned
       directive lines have a corresponding variable containing the line as
       cfgmaker would have output it by default.

       Note that none of these have a HTML escaped variant, text in them is
       HTML escaped where needed.  Also note that they do not have any newline
       at the end.

       $default_target_directive
           This variable contains the default string for the Target[]
           directive line.

       $default_setenv_directive
           This variable contains the default string for the SetEnv[]
           directive line.

       $default_directory_directive
           This variable contains the default string for the Directory[]
           directive line which means it is an empty string (with no newline)
           if there's no directory.

       $default_maxbytes_directive
           This variable contains the default string for the MaxBytes[]
           directive line.

       $default_title_directive
           This variable contains the default string for the Title[] directive
           line.

       $default_pagetop_directive
           This variable contains the default string for the PageTop[]
           directive lines.

       Interface Network Configuration Variables

       $if_ip
           This variable should contain the IP-address of the interface, if
           any has been assigned to it.  (There's no HTML escaped variant
           available)

       $ifindex
           This variable is the SNMP ifIndex for the interface which per
           definition always is an integer.  (There's no HTML escaped variant
           available)

       $if_index
           Equivalent with $ifindex.

       $if_eth
           Contains the ethernet address of the interface, if any.  (There's
           no HTML escaped variant available)

       $if_speed
           This variable is the speed in bytes/second (with prefixes).
           (There's no HTML escaped variant available)

       $if_speed_str
           This variable is a cooked speed description which is either in bits
           or bytes depending on wether or not the bits option is active and
           also with the proper prefix for the speed (k, M, G etc).  (No HTML
           escaped variant available)

       $if_type_desc
           This variable is a textual description of the interface type.
           (HTML escaped variant: $html_if_type_desc)

       $if_type_num
           This variable the integer value corresponding to the interface type
           (for a listing for the value for the more common interface types,
           see the section DETAILS ON FILTERS above).  (No HTML escaped
           variant available)

       $if_dns_name
           This is the DNS name for the interface.  (No HTML escaped variant
           available)

       Interface Name, Description and Alias Variables

       It might seem confusing with both Name, Description and Alias in this
       context and to some extent it is.  Name and Description are usually
       supported on most equipment but how they are used varies, both between
       manufacturers as well as between different cathegories of equipment
       from the same manufacturer.  The Alias is at least supported by Cisco
       IOS, and that variable contains whatever is used in the IOS statement
       called "description" for the interface (not to be confused with the
       SNMP variables for Description).

       For better control from the command line consider $if_title_desc which
       contents are controlled by the --if-descr command line option.

       $if_snmp_descr
           This variable should contain the "raw" description of the interface
           as determined by the SNMP polling of the router.  (HTML escaped
           variant: $html_if_snmp_descr)

       $if_snmp_name
           The "raw" name for the interface as provided by SNMP polling.
           (HTML escaped variant: $html_if_snmp_name)

       $if_snmp_alias
           The "raw" ifAlias for the interface as provided by SNMP polling.
           (HTML escaped variant: $html_if_snmp_alias)

       $if_cisco_descr
           The "raw" CiscolocIfDescr for the interface as provided by SNMP
           polling.  (HTML escaped variant: $html_if_cisco_descr)

       $if_description
           This is the "cooked" description string for the interface, taking
           into account the SNMP values found for the interface's RDescr,
           ifAlias and CiscolocIfDescr.  (HTML escaped variant:
           $html_if_description)

       $if_title
           The full string cfgmaker by default would have used for the Title[]
           directive in the configuration as well as the content of the
           topmost H1 tag in the PageTop[].  Is composed by the contents of
           $desc_prefix, $if_title_desc and $sysname.

           As $if_title depends on $if_title_desc, it is possible to
           indirectly control $if_title by using the command line option
           --if-descr.

           (HTML escaped variant: $html_if_title)

       $if_port_name
           If the host is a Cisco Catalyst LAN switch, this variable is the
           name of that port.  (No HTML escaped variant available)

       $if_pp_port_name
           If the host is a Nortel Passport LAN switch, this variable is the
           name of that port.  (No HTML escaped variant available)

       $desc_prefix
           This variable is a prefix of the description of what the target is
           to use in the "Title[]" directive and in the H1 section of the
           "PageTop[]".  Default is "Traffic analysis for ".  (HTML escaped
           variant: $html_desc_prefix)

       $if_title_desc
           This is the description of the interface normally used by cfgmaker
           as part of the variable $if_title.  The latter is used as the full
           string in the "Title[]" directove and the H1 section in the
           PageTop[].

           $if_title_desc is controlled by the command line option --if-descr
           which indirectly controls the contents of $if_title

           (HTML escaped variant: $html_if_title_desc)

       Help Functions for Templates

       The following functions exists to facilitate the writing of host and
       interface templates.

       html_escape(string)
           html_escape() takes a string as an argument and returns a new
           string where the following substitutions has been done:  the chars
           "<", ">" and "&" are replaced by "&lt;", "&gt;" and "&amp;" and
           that newlines embedded in the string are prepended with "<BR>" and
           appended with a space character (newlines at the end of the string
           are not touched).

       oid_pick($router_connect,$v3opt,"oid1","oid2"...)
           This function will try to poll each of the oids specified until it
           is successful or has run out of oids. It will return the name of
           the first oid that worked or undef if it is not successful

       Example Template Files

       Template Example 1: Eliminating Rejected Targets From Appearing

       This template file generates exactly the same configuration code per
       interface as cfgmaker does by default, with the exception that it
       eliminates all lines (comments as well as config code) for an interface
       if the interface happens to be rejected.

        if(not $problem_lines)
        {
          $target_lines .= <<ECHO;

        Target[$target_name]: $if_ref:$router_connect
        SetEnv[$target_name]: MRTG_INT_IP="$if_ip" MRTG_INT_DESCR="$if_snmp_descr"
        ECHO

          if ($directory_name) {
              $target_lines .= "Directory[$target_name]: $directory_name\n";
          }

          $target_lines .= <<ECHO;
        MaxBytes[$target_name]: $if_speed
        Title[$target_name]: $html_desc_prefix$html_if_title_desc -- $sysname
        PageTop[$target_name]: <h1>$html_desc_prefix$html_if_title_desc -- $sysname</h1>
                       <div id="sysdetails">
                               <table>
                                       <tr>
                                               <td>System:</td>
                                               <td>$sysname in $html_syslocation</td>
                                       </tr>
                                       <tr>
                                               <td>Maintainer:</td>
                                               <td>$html_syscontact</td>
                                       </tr>
                                       <tr>
                                               <td>Description:</td>
                                               <td>$html_if_description</td>
                                       </tr>
                                       <tr>
                                               <td>ifType:</td>
                                               <td>$html_if_type_desc ($if_type_num)</td>
                                       </tr>
                                       <tr>
                                               <td>ifName:</td>
                                               <td>$html_if_snmp_name</td>
                                       </tr>
        ECHO

          $target_lines .= <<ECHO if defined $if_port_name;
                                       <tr>
                                               <td>Port Name:</td>
                                               <td>$if_port_name</td>
                                       </tr>
        ECHO

          $target_lines .= <<ECHO if defined $if_pp_port_name;
                                       <tr>
                                               <td>Port Name:</td>
                                               <td>$if_pp_port_name</td>
                                       </tr>
        ECHO

          $target_lines .= <<ECHO;
                                       <tr>
                                               <td>Max Speed:</td>
                                               <td>$if_speed_str</td>
                                       </tr>
        ECHO

          $target_lines .= <<ECHO if $if_ip;
                                       <tr>
                                               <td>Ip:</td>
                                               <td>$if_ip ($if_dns_name)</td>
                                       </tr>
        ECHO

          $target_lines .= <<ECHO;
                               </table>
                       </div>
        ECHO
        } else {
          $head_lines="";
          $problem_lines="";
          $target_lines="";
          $separator_lines="";
        }

       Template Example 2: Simplier Version of Example 1

       Example 1 was partly intended to demonstrate how to customize the
       generation of interface targets but also to provide a hint of how the
       variables are used in the "default" template which one could consider
       that cfgmaker normally uses.

       If you're only intrested in the easiest way of entirely eliminating
       those reject interfaces, the template below would do the job as well by
       using $default_target_lines.

        if($if_ok) {
         $target_lines = $default_target_lines;
        } else {
          $head_lines="";
          $problem_lines="";
          $target_lines="";
          $separator_lines="";
        }

       Template Example 3: Creating CPU Targets for Hosts

       Below is an example of a host template.

        $head_lines .= <<ECHO;
        #---------------------------------------------------------------------
        ECHO

        my $target_name = $router_name . ".cpu";

        $target_lines .= <<ECHO;

        YLegend[$target_name]: Percentage CPU load
        ShortLegend[$target_name]: %
        Legend1[$target_name]: CPU load in %
        Legend2[$target_name]:
        Legend3[$target_name]: Max Observed CPU load
        Legend4[$target_name]:
        LegendI[$target_name]: &nbsp;CPU Load:
        LegendO[$target_name]:
        WithPeak[$target_name]: ywm
        MaxBytes[$target_name]: 100
        Options[$target_name]: growright, gauge, nopercent
        Title[$target_name]: $router_name CPU load
        Target[$target_name]: 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.58.0&1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.58.0:$router_connect
        PageTop[$target_name]: <h1>$router_name CPU load</h1>
                       <div>
                               <table>
                                       <tr>
                                               <td>System:</td>
                                               <td>$router_name in $html_syslocation</td>
                                       </tr>
                                       <tr>
                                               <td>Maintainer:</td>
                                               <td>$html_syscontact</td>
                                       </tr>
                                       <tr>
                                               <td>Description:</td>
                                               <td>$html_sysdescr</td>
                                       </tr>
                                       <tr>
                                               <td>Resource:</td>
                                               <td>CPU.</td>
                                       </tr>
                               </table>
                       </div>
        ECHO

EXAMPLES
       The first example creates a config file for router.place.xyz:  the
       router has the community name public.  Interfaces get identified by
       their IP number.  Two global options get added to the config file.  The
       config file gets redirected to mrtg.conf.  The '\' signs at the end of
       the line mean that this command should be written on a single line.

        cfgmaker --global "WorkDir: /home/tobi"           \
                 --global "Options[_]: growright,bits"    \
                 --ifref=ip                               \
                 public@router.place.xyz > mrtg.cfg

       Note: if cfgmaker is not in your path, but you are in the directory
       where cfgmaker is stored, you can start it with ./cfgmaker

       The next example creates a config file for four devices:
       router1.place.xyz, router2.place.xyz, switch1.place.xyz and
       switch2.place.xyz all with the community public.

       The two routers will have --ifref set to descr whilst the two switches
       will use --ifref set to name.  Further the routers will use --ifdesc
       set to alias and switch1.place.xyz will use --ifdesc set to descr
       whilst switch2.place.xyz use name instead.

       Finally, there will be two Options lines inserted in the configuration:
       One will be in the beginning, whilst the other will be inserted after
       the lines related to the two routers but before those lines related to
       the switches.

        cfgmaker --global "WorkDir: /home/tobi"           \
                 --global "Options[_]: growright,bits"    \
                 --ifref=descr                            \
                 --ifdesc=alias                           \
                 public@router1.place.xyz                 \
                 public@router2.place.xyz                 \
                 --global "Options[_]: growright"         \
                 --ifref=name                             \
                 --ifdesc=descr                           \
                 public@switch1.place.xyz                 \
                 --ifdesc=name                            \
                 public@switch2.place.xyz > mrtg.cfg

       The next example demonstrates how to use the --community,
       --snmp-options and --dns-domain to make the command line simpler.  All
       the equipment will use the community hidden, except for the ppp-server
       which use community access.  All equipment uses these SNMP options: 1s
       timeout, 1 retry and SNMP version 2 (backoff and port is unspecified
       which means they use the default values).  The exception again is the
       ppp-server which uses SNMP version 1.  Finally, all the equipment is
       part of the domain place.xyz, except for the ppp-server which is part
       of the domain remote.place.xyz.  Note that the latter is achieved
       simply by specifying the name of the ppp-server to be ppp-server.remote
       .

        cfgmaker --global "WorkDir: /home/tobi"           \
                 --global "Options[_]: growright,bits"    \
                 --dns-domain=place.xyz                   \
                 --community=hidden                       \
                 --snmp-options=::1:1::2                  \
                 router1                                  \
                 router2                                  \
                 router3                                  \
                 router4                                  \
                 router5                                  \
                 switch1                                  \
                 switch2                                  \
                 switch3                                  \
                 switch4                                  \
                 switch5                                  \
                 switch6                                  \
                 switch7                                  \
                 access@ppp-server.remote:::::1 > mrtg.cfg

SEE ALSO
       mrtg-reference

AUTHOR
       Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch> and Jakob Ilves
       <jakob.ilves@oracle.com>

LICENSE
       GNU General Public License

COPYRIGHT
       Cfgmaker is Copyright 2000 by Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>



2.17.4                            2012-01-12                       CFGMAKER(1)
