[SunHELP] Monitoring tool

[Frank Carreiro]

I had no idea you could do this.  I've looked at several tools to 
monitor stuff like CPU/DISK activity.  Never thought of using MRTG/RRD 
for this.

We're currently using MRTG to monitor our routers (internet, between 
floors and so on).  VERY nice tool.  Actually had a guy yesterday tell 
me that our Internet connection sucks (T1 he claimed was "slow").  
Pulled up our MRTG page right in front of him and showed we were using 
about 6% of our bandwidth.  So much for it being our connection :-)

Frank


> 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
> 
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