You can monitor pretty much anything. If you have snmp enabled then all you need is the OID, but if not you can script it. For example, I wanted to monitor system load on my email server (also running httpd and mrtg). I found a program called linux_loadavg_mrtg (written in C) on the web then in /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg I have:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ### Global Config Options WorkDir: /var/www/mrtg Options[_]: growright,unknaszero,withzeroes WithPeak[_]: wmy Forks: 10 Interval: 5 ###################################################################### # Contact: Steve Lindemann, +1.970.242.3331x16 # Location: Grand Junction, CO ###################################################################### #--------------------------------------------------------------------- ### loadavg Target[loadavg]: `/usr/local/bin/linux_loadavg_mrtg` MaxBytes[loadavg]: 50 Title[loadavg]: Load Average PageTop[loadavg]: <H2>Load Average on Email Server</H2> Options[loadavg]: growright,gauge,absolute,nopercent YLegend[loadavg]: Load Avgerage ShortLegend[loadavg]: unit Legend1[loadavg]: Load Average (1min) Legend2[loadavg]: n/a Legend3[loadavg]: Maximal 5 Minute Load Average Legend4[loadavg]: n/a LegendI[loadavg]: Value: LegendO[loadavg]: n/a: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can find the program at http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/pub/contrib/ and more specifically http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/pub/contrib/linux_loadavg_mrtg.txt Google can be so handy at times... 8^) Hope that helps -- Steve Lindemann __ Network Administrator //\\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Marmot Library Network, Inc. \\// against HTML/RTF email, url: http://www.marmot.org //\\ vCards & M$ attachments email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: +1.970.242.3331 ext 16 fax: +1.970.245.7854 Mahesh Bharadwaj wrote: > Dear all, > > Please let know if we can monitor CPU utilization with MRTG ...do we have a > doc for that? > > any help would be highly appreciated > > Mahesh > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > mrtg mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg _______________________________________________ mrtg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg
