On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Matt Baer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not really sure how to use cfgmaker templates. I'm kinda learning > these things as I need them. Is there a way to just plug in an OID or > something? > > Just install and enabled net-snmp on the target server. And tell MRTG to graph: laLoad.1 for 1-min laLoad.3 for 5-min laLoad.3 for 15-min averages. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Shipway" <[email protected]> > To: "Matt Baer" <[email protected]>, "mrtg" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 3:50:49 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central > Subject: RE: [mrtg] Monitoring Load > > 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? > > _______________________________________________ > mrtg mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg > > -- Freddie Cash [email protected]
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