Does anyone have experience installing mrtg on any of the SM servers? I would like to roll out my own install of this. Would it give me the same results as SM once did? Would I attach it to eth0?

Thanks in advance.

Dave

Enable snmp on all your boxes, then have mrtg on 1 box, have it pull the ip with the snmp user and your set

And that would be in the kernel correct?

for linux, i believe it is a download, for windows its already built in, and for freebsd it might be in the ports

http://www.snmplink.org/ there you go, everything you need.

for some reason I was thinking I would have to install snmp and mrtg on each box...but thank you I know have snmp on 3 boxes with my web server pulling and creating the mrtg graphs..so far so good

awosome, glad its working out

Yea just got done putting snmp on all the servers and setting the configs for mrtg...added to cron and boom they are going thanks again!

took me a bit on my first windows 2003 server..I had to get the resource kit then install some network services. I then had to create the community and start snmp..the linux boxes went quickly.

hehe, i am addicted to graphs, i look at them and refresh them probably 200+ times a day. I'm such a graph whore

I wish to install MRTG also on my server but I'm having a problem. I've used MRTG in the past so I kinda know what I'm doing but can't seem to get any info from the NIC. SNMP is installed and the community is set but the config program comes up with no response. Do I have to put in a port number for the NIC? If so what is it or how do I find it?
thanks

Silly question I know, but is snmp running?

yes, snmp and snmp trap services are both running. It has to be something simple I'm doing wrong with the cfg script.

What do you get when you do the snmpwalk?

'let say i have a server Located in Norway and 1 SM server can i use the same setup to measure the total bandwith of those 2 even if they are located in different part of the world ??

Yea you are measuring the bandwidth used via the net card. I have a web server running mrtg and snmp installed on 17 different machines. Every 5 minutes it queries those machines to build the graphs.

Dave

i have to install it and see if i can manage to get a total of the bandwith used

I'm still reading the docs..I'm trying to get it to monitor the processes too...fun stuff. The wife is getting mad but hey I need my graphs!

Do what i did give her a computer too atleast she wil be able to get your attention trough messenger or mail

Oh she has a computer. We have 8 in the house in total. Stepson has one and my little 11 month has one set for her when she gets a bit older

oh lucky you we just got 5 here nothing fancy but it is ok for our needs