Re: {bb} MRGT and BB, simple Q

[Srinath Alapati <salapati@altera.com>]

Franklin.Petersen@crown.com wrote:
> 
> Everyone,
> 
> I have MRGT and BB running, but I didn't use the implementation everyone
> else is talking about.
> I simply made a sym link from the BB notes dir to the MRTG dir holding the
> html stat pages.  Works out great for me.
> However I am new to SNMP and a little lacking in knowledge.  I have not set
> up my Linux snmpd yet, but all the NT servers have NT snmp installed and
> running.  So, to start, I used the basic query to poll them:
> 
> Target[myserver.com]: 2:public@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> MaxBytes[myserver.com]: 64000
> Title[myserver.com]: Server Analysis
> PageTop[myserver.com]: <H1>Server System Status</H1>
> 
> So, to start my string of dumb questions:
> 
> 1.  What am I really polling here?  The 10/100 NIC ?
> 2.  Is there a better way to poll this?
> 3.  Is there a way to grab more info such as cpu or such?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Frank

Yes. You can poll CPU, memory, swap, paging, filesystem usage etc. You
call a script from the mrtg.cfg file.

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