[KLUG Members] What is this snmp thing all about?

[Adam Williams]

>Well, a great tool for using SNMP to get useful info is mrtg
> (http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/), especially in

mrtg works great, we used to use it.

>conjuction with the round robin databse tool (rrdtool) also written by
>Tobias Oetiker (http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/)

Yep, OpenNMS uses rrdtools well.  I think net-saint does as well.

>Using mrtg, you can get all the info you are looking for - I have some 
>documentation written up on pulling info from *nix boxen if you would
>like to see it, and http://www.snmp4tpc.com had some good *doze info
>last time I looked.

How about a presentation?