[NTLUG:Discuss] snmp

[MadHat]

At 02:54 PM 3/19/2001 -0600, sysmail at glade.net wrote:
>Hi - I want to monitor other devices with my Linux box - plus I also want
>to do traffic accounting on other Linux boxes via SNMP.  I've downloaded
>UCD-SNMP, now called net-snmp I think, but I am a little new to SNMP and
>Linux.
>
>TIA!

MRTG is great for monitoring bandwidth usage and can be tweaked to monitor 
other MIBs.  MRTG can be bad for keeping detailed data for long periods, if 
you need to do that.

check out

http://silver.he.net/~rrg/snmp_free_tools.htm


What all are you hoping to monitor and are you wanting snapshot (what is it 
doing right this second) or long term (here is the trend over the past 30 
days or 24 hours or... at 5 minute intervals)?


>Carl
>
>GladeNet Communications
>
>On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, MadHat wrote:
>
> > At 10:08 PM 3/18/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> > >Howdy - does anyone have any recommendations for SNMP?  I want to monitor
> > >Cisco and other Linux systems from my Linux box.
> >
> > What are you asking?  SNMP to install on Linux so you can monitor or what
> > tools to monitor (historic or snapshot-on-demand)?
> >
> > http://www.snmpworld.com/
> >
> >
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