[mrtg] Re: Clustering MRTG Servers

[Roy S. Rapoport]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 07:43:49PM -0500, Phil Iovino wrote:
> Does anyone have any hints on clustering MRTG servers? I think I'm going
> to need to setup MRTG on just about every server machine in our network
> (6 or so). Since most scripts that monitor things like bind requests,
> sendmail stats, disk space, cpu load, etc, can't be run "remotely", I
> guess I need to setup MRTG on each box? I know there may be better tools
> for this use like NRG, but I'd like to stick with MRTG if possible. Any
> advice?

Heavens, please don't.

Run a decent SNMP server on these systems that will let you make
external calls to scripts and get the values that way.

-roy

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