On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 21:33 +0100, Tobias Oetiker wrote: > you have to create a single large mrtg.cfg file and run one > instance of mrtg with the forks option in the cfg file.
It's not the only option, but probably the safest and simplest for someone claiming to be a newbie. I prefer to run several instances of MRTG, in daemon mode, under control of a launcher script in /etc/init.d/. This won't necessarily suit all circumstances, but I find it useful because it allows adding or updating configurations for specific clusters of targets without either interrupting the rest of the monitoring or killing everything with a typo. I've just checked one of our network-monitoring boxes, and found 49 instances of MRTG covering over 5000 targets. /Niall _______________________________________________ mrtg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg
