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MRTG OpenBSD

This document provides instructions for setting up an MRTG server on OpenBSD to monitor network traffic. It describes installing required packages, configuring SNMP, generating configuration files using cfgmaker and indexmaker, running mrtg periodically via cron, and serving the results via a web server. The tutorial allows capturing traffic from a router or other device to visualize network usage over time.

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MRTG OpenBSD

This document provides instructions for setting up an MRTG server on OpenBSD to monitor network traffic. It describes installing required packages, configuring SNMP, generating configuration files using cfgmaker and indexmaker, running mrtg periodically via cron, and serving the results via a web server. The tutorial allows capturing traffic from a router or other device to visualize network usage over time.

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MRTG OpenBSD

This tutorial helps you to build your own MRTG server, to capture traffic from your
router, switch or other things.
So I’m gonna make quick tutorial, so I’m gonna cut the craps.

Firstly we need to make sure we already have these :

- gd
- mrtg
- net-snmp
- zlib
- libpng

If you already got those, shall we move on. If not you have to install it first, using
packages or just download the binary package from their website. You can check them
use the pkg_info, for example :

$ pkg_info | grep gd
gd-2.0.34 library for dynamic creation of images

Now we need to configure the snmpd.conf

$ locate snmpd.conf
/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

# System contact
syscontact [email protected]
syslocation Jakarta
# sec.name source community (password)
com2sec MRTG 192.168.8.99 COMMUNITY

#
# group.name sec.model sec.name
group RWGroup V1 ROUTER
group ROGroup V1 LocalLan
#
# incl/excl subtree mask
view all included .1 80
view system included system fe
#
# context sec.model sec.level prefix read write notif
access ROGroup “” V1 noauth exact all none none
access RWGroup “” V1 noauth exact all all all
access Others “” V1 noauth exact system none all

For further info you can check it from here http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/ .


Now we need to activate the snmpd :

#/usr/local/sbin/snmpd -c /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

If want to snmpd automatically start on boot you need to put it in the /etc/rc.local

#echo “/usr/local/sbin/snmpd -c /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf” >> /etc/rc.local

And after that we need to know is it the snmpd active or not, by doing this :

#/usr/local/bin/snmpwalk -Os -c [community-string] -v 1 [ip-number]

You have to fill the community string and the ip number. After that you can see outputs.

bla-bla-bla ………………….
snmpInTotalReqVars.0 = Counter32: 6778
snmpInTotalSetVars.0 = Counter32: 0
snmpInGetRequests.0 = Counter32: 1440
snmpInGetNexts.0 = Counter32: 1742
snmpInSetRequests.0 = Counter32: 0
snmpInGetResponses.0 = Counter32: 0
snmpInTraps.0 = Counter32: 0
snmpOutTooBigs.0 = Counter32: 0
snmpOutNoSuchNames.0 = Counter32: 0
snmpOutBadValues.0 = Counter32: 0
snmpOutGenErrs.0 = Counter32: 0
snmpOutGetRequests.0 = Counter32: 0
snmpOutGetNexts.0 = Counter32: 0
snmpOutSetRequests.0 = Counter32: 0
snmpOutGetResponses.0 = Counter32: 3192
snmpOutTraps.0 = Counter32: 0
snmpEnableAuthenTraps.0 = INTEGER: disabled(2)
snmpSilentDrops.0 = Counter32: 0
snmpProxyDrops.0 = Counter32: 0

Congrats, you just installed your snmp.

As we know apache is jailed (chroot-ed) at the /var/www or you can use the ‘-u’ flag.
Then you have to make folder in the /var/www/mrtg. Now I want to capture traffic from
my router ( OpenBSD Router ) 192.168.8.2, I had snmp installed there. So I make
another folder at the /var/www/mrtg/router/ or just use the router’s IP
/var/www/mrtg/192.168.8.2.

#cfgmaker –global ‘WorkDir: /var/www/mrtg/192.168.8.2/’ \


–global ‘Options[_]:bits,growright’ \
–output /var/www/mrtg/192.168.8.2/192.168.8.2.cfg \
[email protected]

You can check that 192.168.8.2.cfg already there ( /var/www/mrtg/192.168.8.2 ), now we


need to run this. We need to add these lines to the
/var/www/mrtg/192.168.8.2/192.168.8.2.cfg

LoadMIBs: /usr/share/snmp/mibs/UCD-SNMP-MIB.txt
RunAsDaemon: Yes

#/usr/local/bin/mrtg /var/www/mrtg/192.168.8.2/192.168.8.2.cfg

You will see so many errors output, that’s normal. Now put that line to the crontab.
#crontab -e
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/mrtg /var/www/mrtg/192.168.8.2/192.168.8.2.cfg

And save your work, it will run for every 5 minutes ( man crontab). Now we need an
index.html so we can easily access it from the browser. Run this command to make your
index

#indexmaker –output=/var/www/mrtg/192.168.8.2/index.html
/var/www/mrtg/192.168.8.2/192.168.8.2.cfg

Whamm, now you already have your own index.html at the /var/www/mrtg/192.168.8.2.
Now, all we need to configure the httpd.conf. And you are ready to go.

*PS : You need to install the snmp to the machine you want to capture, it will be the same
way.

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