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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">If you are using SNMP, then the cfgmaker generic host template available at
<a href="http://www.steveshipway.org/cfgmaker">http://www.steveshipway.org/cfgmaker</a> will do the trick nicely.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">Make sure you use the 5-min load average, not the 1-min or 15-min, if you are polling at 5-min frequency (but use the 1-min if you are polling at 1-min frequency, of course)</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">If you cannot use SNMP, then you might like to use the Nagios NRPE agent with the check_load plugin, then use the mrtg-nrpe plugin for MRTG to allow MRTG to query the values fomr the Nagios agent. mrtg-nrpe is in
the 'extras' directory of the standard Routers2 package from <a href="http://www.steveshipway.org/software">
http://www.steveshipway.org/software</a> - this is the way we do it here.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">Steve</font></div>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> mrtg-bounces@lists.oetiker.ch [mrtg-bounces@lists.oetiker.ch] On Behalf Of Matt Baer [matt@baerconsult.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 25 September 2009 6:15 p.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> mrtg<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mrtg] Monitoring Load<br>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I'm trying to monitor the load of some Linux servers. I've tried a number of different scripts and can't find anything with the glorious Google method. Does anyone have a working method to monitor
load on some Linux machines?<br>
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