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

[Bruce Smith]

> >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.

I came across a fairly new article about setting up MRTG on Linux:

http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220020802noo01.htm&fromtm=e011

(I believe a free membership is required to read the article)

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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