[mrtg] Re: Best Practices

[Dowling, Steve]

Michel,

This topic may generate a lot of comment, let's see what people have to say.
Our network runs across 6 sites, ~100 switches (core and edge), ~100
servers.
I monitor total traffic, b/cast pkts, m/cast pkts, errors on trunks.  For
selected servers I monitor traffic and round-trip-time.  Less than 100
targets. I find this is enough for maintenance and sizing purposes - it's
(mostly) a very lightly loaded network.  All data/log files go to
./logfiles/<site>/<file>.  
The whole lot runs on a single NT box quite happily.

Steve Dowling

-----Original Message-----
From: Labelle, Michel [mailto:mlabelle at city.coquitlam.bc.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, 1 January 2002 8:14
To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [mrtg] Best Practices



I'm setting up a new installation of MRTG and I'm trying to put together a
"best practices" worksheet for it.

The site is relatively small and contains about 50 servers (*NIX and NT/2K),
~15 routers and a about 100 switches, Web farm, firewalls etc...

What I'm looking for are comments on how YOU would organize the
data/log/config files etc.  What key values should be monitored.  How many
values/devices can be monitored before additional MRTG servers should be
setup to ensure graphing doesn't affect performance.  Any other
administration guidelines would be appreciated

Obviously I know this will vary from site to site / admin to admin, but
that's the whole point of asking the list.

If you were to do this, what would you do.  I'll post the worksheet as soon
as it's compiled.

Thanks

Michel

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