 | | | mrtg step-by-step howto/configuration for a newbie? | mrtg step-by-step howto/configuration for a newbie? 2003-12-11 - By Tom Diehl
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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
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