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<div>If a host has SNMP enabled, then you can monitor it in the same way as a router, via SNMP. There are host templates for cfgmaker available at <a href="http://www.steveshipway.org/cfgmaker" target="_blank">http://www.steveshipway.org/cfgmaker</a> that you can use, or of course roll your own.</div>
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<div>You can also write your own data collection plugins for MRTG to retrieve any stats you want -- see the MRTG documentation for how to do this, or read the book <a href="http://www.steveshipway.org/book/" target="_blank">http://www.steveshipway.org/book/</a> . Basically, you just specify the script name in the Target definition, and make the script return the two metrics to graph.</div>
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<div>Finally, you can use the mrtg-nrpe and mrtg-pnsclient data collecitons for MRTG (supplied with Routers2 in the extras directory) which allow MRTG to query data from the Nagios nsclient and NRPE agents (including nsclient++, nc_net etc). This allows you to run a test remotely (via NRPE) or query any Windows perfmon counter (via nsclient). Between them, these plugins will let you obtain any stats on a remote server (though you may need to write an NRPE plugin to do it on UNIX) and will let you run any check you want on a remote server.</div>
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<div>As a last note -- if you're interested in remote network performance only, you might like to take a look at Tobi's smokeping.</div>
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<div>Steve</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 13px"><strong>Steve Shipway</strong></div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 13px">University of Auckland ITS</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 13px"><em>UNIX Systems Design Lead</em></div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 13px"><a href="mailto:s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz" target="_blank">s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz</a></div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 13px">Ph: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86487</div>
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<div style="DIRECTION: ltr" id="divRpF604357"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> mrtg-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz@lists.oetiker.ch [mrtg-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz@lists.oetiker.ch] on behalf of Furosh One [furosh@gmail.com]<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 21 August 2010 10:40 a.m.<br><b>To:</b> mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch<br><b>Subject:</b> [mrtg] Question about mrtg use?<br></font><br></div>
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<div>I really appreciate MRTG a while back when I was a Net. Admin but today I'm trying to see if MRTG can provide me network bandwidth/testing metrics for a particular project I have. <br>Basically I am trying to test a cloud co-lo server I've setup with network metrics accessing this server from our Global WAN. <br><br>I wanted to know if I could use MRTG to use a destination IP or FQDN as "target"?<br><br>It would be great if I could measure network performance tests to a particular host to test data transfer for things like: FTP, SFTP, GIT, SVN, SCP, RSYNC, etc.<br><br>Since I'm not wanting to test a router address, is there a way to collect metrics for a particular HOST IP or Domain name?<br><br>Thank for any help/assistance/recommendations.<br><br>-FuRoSh.<br></div></div></body></html>