[mrtg] Re: Minimum system requirements/system recommendations

[Bill Wichers]

MRTG isn't particularly demanding. Network delays with the SNMP queries
are usually more likely to limit how many devices you can monitor than the
CPU power of your box is (at least IMHO with a WAN). We use a dual Athlon
1.2 GHz machine here with a bit shy of a gig of RAM, and it is *way*
overkill for the 300-400 or so interfaces we are monitoring, and that
includes a lot of special perl scripts to watch some custom built devices.

Just split your MRTG config into several smaller files with fewer
interfaces and you should be able to run on whatever machine you have
laying around as long as it can handle your OS.

     -Bill


> Is there any level of system requirements/recommendations to run MRTG?  We
> are planning on using a Linux server (probably Fedora Core 2) and wanted
> to
> make sure that we spec the server properly before setting it up and
> possibly
> wasting time with an improper server.
>
> We will probably be monitoring between 50 and 200 nodes.  Mostly routers,
> firewalls, and switches.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Shawn Maceno

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Waveform Technology
UNIX Systems Administrator


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