On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Vidol Loeung wrote: > Hi all: > > I know MRTG is a very important tool for monitoring Internet/network > connection and data usage. However, I have taken it for granted so far > as my work before was not so involved with network traffic > control/measuring. But now I'm in the middle of it and need your help. > If someone could point me to a good tutorial on mrtg that explains > step-by-step configuration for RedHat 9.0, i'd be most grateful. > > I've tried the one that comes with RedHat 9.0 CD, but I could not manage > to make it work. I know, it does not work out of the box; maybe someone > of you can explain some steps to get the RPM that comes with Shrike CD > working. http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/ > I saw its default configuration like this in /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg: Which does nothing. You need to run cfgmaker. The mrtg rpm that comes with 9 runs out of the box assuming you provide a proper mrtg.cfg file and the device you want to monitor has snmp enabled. > And when I tried running it manually: > > $ mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg > > There were these errors: You did not tell it what to monitor. Run cfgmaker with the proper args and it will create an mrtg.cfg file for you. HTH, .............Tom -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
