[SunHELP] Monitoring tool

[Shawn Tagseth]

I've implemented MRTG monitoring on solaris machines here.  But to get CPU
usage (maybe others) you need to get net-snmp (at least version 4.2 or
above) from sourceforge.  Compile it from source using gcc.  The packages
and compiling it with Sun Workshop compiler seemed to give me numbers that
didn't quite match what was going on. I haven't looked at RRD lately but
once MRTG-3 comes out (sorry Tobi, I know MRTG-2 and RRD can work, but I
don't have time to play) it will be an even more beautiful thing...

Shawn K. Tagseth

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Carreiro [mailto:fcarreiro at loweryinc.com]
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:22 AM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Monitoring tool 


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