Re: Mrtg how?

[Nathan <chrome@stupendous.net>]

On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 08:58 PM, Elcio Mello wrote:

> Hi people,
>
> I have about 1000 interfaces snmp that I need to monitor their traffic.
> I have ever try to use mrtg tool on a PIII 1GHz or a SUN, but it is 
> impossible, the cpu can't do it, the processing is very hard.
> I would like to know if there is a mrtg alternative, or if there is a 
> magic to make the mrtg to do it.
>
> Anyone use mrtg to monitor a traffic of a lot of interfaces?
> Anyone can help me, please?

Use either Cricket or NRG (http://nrg.hep.wisc.edu/). I used NRG simply 
because it was easier to set up, and adding a host to it was as simple 
as adding a line to a config file ...

Whatever you do, it will need to be based around RRDtool, because MRTG 
generates the graphs every 5 minutes whether someone looks at them or 
not, whereas the CGi in RRDtool only generates the graphs when you look 
at them.

Nathan.

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