If you are using SNMP, then the cfgmaker generic host template available at 
http://www.steveshipway.org/cfgmaker will do the trick nicely.

Make sure you use the 5-min load average, not the 1-min or 15-min, if you are 
polling at 5-min frequency (but use the 1-min if you are polling at 1-min 
frequency, of course)

If you cannot use SNMP, then you might like to use the Nagios NRPE agent with 
the check_load plugin, then use the mrtg-nrpe plugin for MRTG to allow MRTG to 
query the values fomr the Nagios agent.  mrtg-nrpe is in the 'extras' directory 
of the standard Routers2 package from http://www.steveshipway.org/software - 
this is the way we do it here.

Steve

________________________________
From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Matt Baer [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, 25 September 2009 6:15 p.m.
To: mrtg
Subject: [mrtg] Monitoring Load

I'm trying to monitor the load of some Linux servers.  I've tried a number of 
different scripts and can't find anything with the glorious Google method.  
Does anyone have a working method to monitor load on some Linux machines?
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