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Thank you for your reply Aaron. But, then, what should be my community name; and
where can I define one?
Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 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.
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