[mrtg] Re: Typical New Question

[Stieers, Ken]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Thorpe [mailto:simon.thorpe at breakertech.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 9:48 AM
> To: Mrtg List (E-mail)
> Subject: [mrtg] Typical New Question
> 
> 
> heya all
> 
> well MRTG looks to be the answer to all my dreams, i have a 
> fairly good
> understanding of networking and unix. I've installed mrtg and gd on my
> freebsd router and it's been installed ok. I'm still halfway 
> through reading
> and understanding the documentation. But i'm stuck on getting 
> to grips with
> SNMP and how it's going to work.
> 
> Am i right in understanding i actually need to install an 
> SNMP agent onto
> the router ? 

Most routers have SNMP agents built in.  You may just need to enable it. 

>Or does MRTG use the perl scripts to monitor my 
> interfaces ? 

It can if your router doesn't have SNMP or has a really crappy
implementation.  If you are using any of the big router manufacturers,
you'll be fine with their SNMP implementation.

>If
> so i think i obviously need to find the fbsd snmp package and get it
> installed.
> 
> Once I have the snmp data coming in i should be on my way 
> with what looks
> like a fantastic product.
> 
> I had an idea last night as well, and wonder if any of the NT 
> people out
> there would like to entertain it. I develop at work for the 
> NT and some UNIX
> environments, at home i have a UNIX based network with some 
> nt boxes. I was
> thinking how useful mrtg would be as a COM / ActiveX 
> component. It could be
> called via asp / wsh / vb, (anything really) and have access 
> to all the
> functionality that i see mrtg has.

I wouldn't waste your time with MRTG 2.x if you're looking for a project.
Look at RRDTool/Orca or RRDTool/Cricket.  Its basically MRTG 3.x.  You can
find it at 
http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/

> 
> Is anyone already thinking about this ? if not would it be worth some
> discussions and what would be the thoughts of the authors?
> 
> cheers anyhow..
> 
> > <--Simon Thorpe-->
> > Internet Systems Engineer
> >   BREAKERTECH - UK
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> > 
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