[mrtg] Re: MIB's question

[Henry Steinhauer]

Neil -

You dropped part of the great advertising  -

In order to graph Traffic - you ARE using MIBs.  It happens that in order to
graph that traffic, you do not need to know anything else about MIBs.

You are right though,  It is great that in order to use MRTG, you do not need to
know a lot about the devices or other MIB information.

For us - it has opened up the windows of conversation so people are talking
about the amount of traffic being sent instead of thinking that just because it
is slow, that it is because of slow traffic.   It is because of so much traffic
is being sent.

Henry




From: "Calvert, Neil" <ncalvert at GlobalNTS.com> on 09/06/2000 12:20 PM

To:   mrtg <mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch>
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Subject:  [mrtg] Re: MIB's question




you know, your email is probably a great advertising statement for the
usability of MRTG...

But to your question, MRTG graphs traffic out of the box. SNMP devices (and
SNMP agents running on servers ) can report much more than just traffic ;
their CPU utilization, Disk Space, Memory, # of modems in use, Power supply
status, size of email queue and many more.

The question 'can I benefit' can be replied with 'what do you need to see?'
to be more precise. If you only care about network traffic, then mib details
are probably not needed. If you would like to extend the capabilities of
MRTG then a little MIB research to find counters of interest on devices you
have access to is what's required.

I have a doc I can send on to you if you'd like. It's an overview of MRTG
with some explanation of what MIBs are and what they do.

Hope this helps

Neil

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Donovan [mailto:jdonovan at beth.k12.pa.us]
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 1:12 AM
To: mrtg
Subject: [mrtg] MIB's question



greetings

can someone explain or point me to a url that explains the benefits
of using MIB's with MRTG?

I have had MRTG up for 2 years now without using ( or even
researching ) MIB's, and it has worked like a champ. Could I benefit
from using MIB's?

TIA

--jeff

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Bethlehem Area School District  The Bethlehem Education Network (BEN)
Bethlehem, PA  18017            (610) 807-5557  jdonovan at beth.k12.pa.us

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