Cisco Systems Dial NMS manual Task 3-Using Mrtg to Monitor and Graph Traffic Loads, About Mrtg

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Task 3—Using MRTG to Monitor and Graph

Traffic Loads

About MRTG

Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a free performance management application for Unix that monitors SNMP statistics from any SNMP capable device on your network and performs the following functions:

Captures, stores, and graphically presents SNMP data. By default, a web page with four graphs per MIB object (OID) is created by MRTG. The graphs show the variation of MIB data over time.

Runs from the crontab. Every five minutes, a cron job runs MRTG to query a user-configured list of OIDs and network devices. After each data collection cycle, the MRTG perl script posts updated graphs to a web page.

Efficiently compresses and archives data samples to create graphs.

Enables you to determine if trending data is useful for monitoring your environment before you invest in costly network performance software. If trending data is critical to manage your network, it may be necessary to purchase a commercial network performance package, such as Concord Network Health. However, you may find that MRTG is all you need.

Figure 10 MRTG Polls for OIDs; OID Values that Are Returned to MRTG

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Cisco Systems Dial NMS manual Task 3-Using Mrtg to Monitor and Graph Traffic Loads, About Mrtg