Answers from a 2 month user: 1. Yes, MRTG uses snmp to monitor a device. It has to be on or supported. Its configuration varies from type of device.
2. MRTG works great by its own. If you want to get more advanced graphs RRDTOOL is for you. Start your monitoring like me, im currently using mrtg only, planning to try rrdtool when i have more time.. :D Right? 2004-04-06 kl. 09.39 skrev Admin-Stress: > Hi, > > I need some clear answer about mrtg (http://www.mrtg.org). I know that > I can read the > documentation, and I did. But I am still dont quite understand (I am > newbie). > > (1) Do I need to install SNMP to use MRTG ? is it a MUST ? I want to > use MRTG to monitor network > traffic and cpu load in particularly. > > (2) What is the difference between MRTG and RDDTOOL ? Can I use MRTG > without RDDTOOL ? If yes, > what is the consequencies ? > > Thanks in advance, > > Regards, > mt > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway > http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ > > -- > Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg > FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org > WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi > > > -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
