Re: MRTG

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

Shawn Owens said:
> Can anyone tell me if they have successfully run MRTG on a Debian box and
> a good source for installing and configuring it on Debian.

I've been running mrtg on debian for nearly 3 years now. I have
extensive docs on how to configure MRTG to monitor various types
of devices:

http://howto.aphroland.de/HOWTO/MRTG

MRTG is pretty straight forward, the hardest part is finding the
methods to gather data, many of which I provide details about on
that site.

installing is easy:

apt-get install mrtg

I then create a mrtg user, and directory structure e.g.

/home/mrtg
/home/mrtg/bin
/home/mrtg/tmp
/home/mrtg/public_html
/home/mrtg/conf

where I put the various things like config files, scripts, and
html. you can see a sample layout of my structure here:

http://mrtg.aphroland.org

I also make /var/lock/mrtg a symlink to /home/mrtg/tmp

nate