On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 16:03 +1300, Phill Coxon wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 15:22 +1300, Craig Falconer wrote: > > > I recommend probing your DSL router via SNMP and graphing the output in > > cacti. At least that gives ammunition in the event of a disagreement. > > http://shell.clug.org.nz:8080/rrd-cacti.png > > Cacti looks very cool! > > I quickly installed it and have it talking to the router via SNMP. > > It's probably not configured properly yet as the router graphs are > blank. Either that or I have to wait until cacti updates the data / > graphs. > > I'm definitely going to put some time into this and use it to monitor > traffic on this desktop and the router. > > Thanks for the suggestion. Be sure to try munin ( http://munin.projects.linpro.no/ ) as well. Both ( and plenty of other ) projects are based on Tobi Oetiker's world changing - for a sysadmin - rrdtool project, which grew from the original MRTG.
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