[SC.LUG] Anyone use MRTG?

[Greg Bolshaw]

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Seth Kneller <seth at autismisanotherworld.com> wrote:
> Greg Bolshaw wrote:
> | MRTG is the best tool for the job providing the device you want to
> | monitor supports SNMP.
>
> What if the device you want to monitor doesn't support SNMP? Is it
> possible to get MRTG to produce graphs of traffic over a certain
> interface? Has anyone done this?

Yes, I've done this. The only way that MRTG can interface is using SNMP. 
If SNMP isn't already available, you'll need to setup the net-snmp[1] 
daemon.

Hope that helps
Greg

[1] http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/

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