On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:03:14AM -0500, Tom Diehl wrote: > 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 The key question is what are the proper arguments. If you want to monitor the interface on a machine called george lets say what is its community name. public has not worked for me and I have been using mrtg sucessfully for years when I ran it relative to a router. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
