[SunHELP] Monitoring tool

[Brian Hechinger]

> MRTG is for monitoring traffic through a router.

not entirely true.

> From their own site:
 
>>MRTG consists of a Perl script which uses SNMP to read the traffic
>>counters of your routers and a fast C program which logs the traffic data
>>and creates beautiful graphs representing the traffic on the monitored   
>>network connection. These graphs are embedded into webpages which can be 
>>viewed from any modern Web-browser.                                      

this is a vauge, quick summary overview kinda thing.  you can configure your
average SNMP agent to watch far more than just network activity.  i have been
using mrtg to monitor everything from network activity to disk to swap usage
to io/sec to anything i can conceive of.  there is no limit.

that's the whole point of SNMP.

i highly recommend mrtg.  it's an excellent tool.  although if you want to do
crazy stuff with it (lots of machines, or much processing or whatever) you would
do well to get RRD Tool http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/ and
put mrtg on top of that.

cheers,

-brian