Applies To:
  • CitectSCADA 5.31, 5.40, 5.41, 5.42, 5.50, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0
  • CitectHMI 5.31, 5.40, 5.41, 5.42, 5.50, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0
  • CitectFacilities 5.31, 5.40, 5.41, 5.42, 5.50, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0
  • CitectSCADA Batch 5.31, 5.40, 5.41, 5.42, 5.50, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0
  • CitectSCADA Pocket 5.31, 5.40, 5.41, 5.42, 5.50, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0
Summary:
This KB explains how to deploy open source software (Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) to monitor the health of Citect Servers and Clients on the network LAN.  

perl mrtg mrtg.cfg

Running as Deamon

in the mrtg.cfg file, add the following line:




RunAsDaemon: yes






At your command prompt, enter the following:









start /Dc:\mrtg-2.16.2\bin perl mrtg --logging=eventlog mrtg.cfg






Configuring IIS 




    

  1. Open up Internet Information Services (IIS) Start > Settings
> Control Panel > Admin Tools > Internet Information
Services
    2. 


  2. Go to Web Sites > Default Web Site, and add a new
virtual directory called 'MRTG' and make the local path
C:\www\mrtg
    3. 


  3. In properties > Directory Security > click Edit and tick
Anonymous Access (Note: you can lock access back down after
testing).  Make sure Windows Integrated Authentication is
ticked.
    4. 


  4. Click OK
    5. 




Test IIS is serving web pages by putting the following link in
your browser:





http://youripaddress/www/mrtg




Then select the interface you wish to view (ending in extn
.html) 









Solution:







Before you start, you will need the following:





Installing






To make the most use of MRTG, I would suggest installing it on
the machine that the Citect webserver is installed on.  That
way, you can make use of the IIS webserver.  This is handy as
other clients can access the monitoring data too.



 





Unzip MRTG to C:\mrtg-2.16.2 on the Windows machine of your
choice.



Install Perl on the same Windows machine. You might want to make
sure that the Perl binary directory is listed in your system
path.








C:\Perl\bin;




You can manually check this by going to [Control
Panel]->[System]->[Environment]



To see if everything is installed properly you can open a
Command Shell and go into c:\mrtg-2.16.2\bin.
Type:








perl mrtg




This should give you a friendly error message complaining about
the missing MRTG configuration file. Now, you have successfully
installed MRTG and Perl.



Configuring MRTG on the Citect IIS webserver




For this example, I will assume the IP address of the IO server
we want monitor is 192.168.1.2 with a community string of
'public'.



MRTG will monitor input and output traffic in bytes and CPU load
only.  Later I will show how to configure monitoring a
particular OID.



We need to make up a config file, get to a cmd prompt and change
to the c:\mrtg-2.16.2\bin directory. Type the
following command:








perl cfgmaker public@192.168.1.2 --global "WorkDir: c:\www\mrtg" --output mrtg.cfg




This creates an initial MRTG config file for you. If you get any
errors, please check your community string and IP address are
correct.



In the mrtg.cfg file, add the following to the top:








WorkDir: c:\www\mrtg










Running MRTG

















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