RRD Manager - RRD Collector
Administrator Handbook

Template file of the RRD Collector Wizard

The Template_List.xml file is used to store the setting of the tree in the snmp configuration wizard. The wizard helps the user to select a set of snmp object ID to graph in the RRD Collector plugin. The file can be extended at will and provide a fast way for selecting new set of snmp objets in few clicks.

The XML schema definition file is given below:

Structure of the wizard template file

The wizard template file is built with nodes that create the tre structure. A node <node> contains a node name <node_name> and either another node or a leaf object.

<Node>
     <Node_Name>Spanning Tree protocol - IEEE 802.1d</Node_Name>
     <Leaf>
     ....
     </Leaf>
     <Leaf>
     ....
     </Leaf>
</Node>
<Node>
      <Node_Name></Node_Name>
      <Node>
           <Node_Name></Node_Name>
           <Node>
                 <Node_Name></Node_Name>
          </Node>
      </Node>
</Node>

Structure of the leaf node

<Leaf>

Tag tha enclose the settings of a leaf node

<Leaf_Name>

the leaf node name

<Tpl_Description>

A description for that leaf entry

<MIB_File>

the MIB file required for displaying this snmp object correctly

<Y_Legend>

The legend used for this template and later on into the RRD graph

<Leaf_Type>

The snmp object type

TABLE	A snmp object table (indexed objects)
COLUMNS	Some columns of a snmp table(indexed objects)
OBJECT	Simple non indexed snmp objects

A snmp object in a LoriotPro short format (example: ifinoctets) or reduced format (example of reduced format: mib_description:object_name).

The attribut storing the object description use in the graph legend

Name="Network Interface"

Example of node in the template file

<Node>
   <Node_Name>Network layer</Node_Name>
   <Leaf>
          <Leaf_Name>Network Interface Table</Leaf_Name>
          <Tpl_Description>Full table of the Network Interface SNMP object</Tpl_Description>
          <Y_Legend></Y_Legend>
          <Leaf_Type>TABLE</Leaf_Type>
          <OID>iftable</OID>
    </Leaf>
    <Leaf>
          <Leaf_Name>Network Interface Traffic in Bytes/second</Leaf_Name>
         <Tpl_Description>none</Tpl_Description>
         <MIB_File>RFC1213-MIB</MIB_File>
         <Y_Legend>Bytes/s</Y_Legend>
         <Leaf_Type>COLUMNS</Leaf_Type>
        <OID Name="Network Interface">ifdescr</OID>
        <OID Name="Incoming octets">ifinoctets</OID>
        <OID Name="Outgoing octets">ifoutoctets</OID>
     </Leaf>
....

The same noued displayed in the wizard

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