[Solved!] - Graph titles

[bmamo]

Hi everybody,

Great forum i found it very useful during my installation of cacti, especially for the rrdtool. I've successfully set it up and i'm graphing 2 6500 cisco routers correctly. Thanks to the developers and all you guys helping out. I might have a little bit of a problem that's bugging me which i've been trying to fix but can't really find any remedy. i've searched around in this forum, and also tried with using the services of a dear friend of mine (called google) without any luck.

Basically my problem is that when i found the devices and later created the graphs, the data that i got from the router showed what i needed very clearly, but also unclearly to a certain point... it's because the router has lots and lots of interfaces, and i couldn't get the port descriptions from the router! in a previous version we had (which wasn't installed by me) it was showing all the client names and such, but on this version i couldn't find how to do it. I've tried messing about with the graph template and searching for variables, but no luck.

would anybody out there know what i can do please? any help would be greatly appreciated!

thanks and regards
Bernard

[bmamo]

no luck yet!

aew there any variables i can use that anyone might know of (like |query_ifname|?

[llow]

I suggest adding a comment to your graphs that uses |query_ifAlias|. This is the description line you would have put on your interfaces.

[bmamo]

Hi again. Thanks a lot for that - I did it, and i can see the aliases, but when i create the graphs i don't get them. I tried changing the graph template and the data source template with no luck! any more tips?

[gandalf]

Please see the Data QUery, select the graph. Then see the "Suggested Names" Section and make sure, that a resolvable naming rules including ifAlias is on top
Reinhard

[bmamo]

AARGH!!

solved, and it was so easy to solve!!

i was doing it all right (with |query_ifAlias|), but there was a check box named 'Use Per-Data Source Value (ignore this value)' which i didn't know i had to uncheck!

ahh at least now it's all done

thanks guys!

[riz]

how would one go about making the title text size smaller (or increase the allowed title field size) for interfaces with longer descriptions/ifAlias?

[riz]

pls ignore my last post, I've re-acquainted myself with the console and found it!

..it's late and been a long day

[epair]

hi,

my problem is, whenever i use the Suggested Name, it'll use the default, althouugh i had deleted the default. why?


tq

[gandalf]

Please see some posts above yours. It's all there
Reinhard