<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>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?<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Steve Shipway" <s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz><br>To: "Matt Baer" <matt@baerconsult.com>, "mrtg" <mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch><br>Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 3:50:49 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central<br>Subject: RE: [mrtg] Monitoring Load<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2">If you are using SNMP, then the cfgmaker generic host template available at
<a href="http://www.steveshipway.org/cfgmaker" target="_blank">http://www.steveshipway.org/cfgmaker</a> will do the trick nicely.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">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)</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">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 <a href="http://www.steveshipway.org/software" target="_blank">
http://www.steveshipway.org/software</a> - this is the way we do it here.</font></div>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> mrtg-bounces@lists.oetiker.ch [mrtg-bounces@lists.oetiker.ch] On Behalf Of Matt Baer [matt@baerconsult.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 25 September 2009 6:15 p.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> mrtg<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mrtg] Monitoring Load<br>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">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?<br>
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