Comments on: MRTG Indexmaker Interface + Description

By: W Sanders

W Sanders — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:44:27 +0000

Nope. well you get the idea

By: W Sanders

W Sanders — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:43:59 +0000

Well foo it took out all my tags. Will this work?

[code]
Replace the line

m,Description:\s*\Q$section\E\s*([^< ][^<]+?),i

with

m,\s*Description:\s*\s*\s*([^< ][^<]+?),i

[code]

By: W Sanders

W Sanders — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:41:58 +0000

Another way to fix this is to replace the line:

m,Description:\s*\Q$section\E\s*([^< ][^<]+?),i

with

m,\s*Description:\s*\s*\s*([^< ][^<]+?),i

to give a more general (perhaps) parsing rule for what the “Description:” line contains. I always find myself hand editing the MRTG cfg file, and screwing up the semantics of the Description: line enough to throw off indexmaker. Plus I suspect there may be incompatibilities with indexmaker and cfg files made by hand or made a long time ago with old versions of cfgmaker. Anyway, it’s all just a simple exercise in the joyful wonders of Perl regular expressions.

By: Barryke

Barryke — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:28:29 +0000

Thanks!
Screenshots or pictures would make a good addition to your articles.