CiscoWorks 2000 and MRTG Integration

[andrew.burns]

Has anyone tried running CiscoWorks 2000 and MRTG on the same box? Are there any known issues with installing perl 5.6 over CiscoWorks 2000 ?

many thanks

[rmushtaq · Accepted solution]

CW2000 installs it's own perl with the application, therefore it may cause problems with the perl used by MRTG. The recommendation is to install CW2K on a standalone server of it's own.

[shamilton-wilkes]

Yes, I've done exactly that many times, Solaris has perl by default which CiscoWorks doesn't use. MRTG will happily use the default perl on the box rather than the one in /opt/CSCOpx.

If you want to run rrdtool /routers.cgi it becomes a bit more difficult - I've never been able to get it working without building yet another copy of perl and installing it in /usr/local. But still it plays nice with CiscoWorks. I assume you're talking Solaris ?

If you are planning on polling many routers you really should look at rrdtool because it reduces CPU usage by 70% of so, and otherwise you'll kill even a fairly big box with CiscoWorks as well.

[andrew.burns]

We're running CW on W2000 - but as it's a production system and is working fine I'm loathe to do anything which might compromise it's stability. I see a small but measurable risk in installing MRTG on the same box so I've decided to play safe and build another W2000 server for MRTG.

Thanks for the advice about rrdtool - I'll have to investigate...

[#5]

MRTG run well with cw2k,

you can install another copy of perl 5.8 at /usr/local/,and put /usr/local/bin at the begin of your PATH enviroment.

the pakage for sun solaris 5.8 can be found at mrtg download site.