Re: mrtg configuration

[Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL>]

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Pietro Cagnoni wrote:

> > to be onest, I have no idea where SNMP is used for, but I read in the docs
> > that mrtg is able to work without extra snmp installations. I just want
> > the traffic on eth0 measured.
>
> snmp = simple network management protocol, mrtg uses it to gather
> network load information.
>
> you need to install snmpd on the boxes you want to monitor; then use
> cfgmaker to configure mrtg on the box you install it on.
>
> hope this is correct and helps - worked for me :-)
>

Yep, works as desired. Thanks!

Sebastiaan