Very Computer

I would like to monitor the ethernet interface on my Fedora Linux box using
MRTG.  I would like to do this without using SNMP.  I have MRTG installed
and have worked with it before monitoring things using SNMP.  I just do not
know how to do this without MRTG.  Anyone have any pointers or examples?

Another thing I would like to monitor with it is CPU load.

Matt

Quote:> I would like to monitor the ethernet interface on my Fedora Linux box
> using MRTG.  I would like to do this without using SNMP.

MRTG uses a Perl-based SNMP implementation. I don't believe that one can
gather the network statistics any other way.

        tony

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Take a look at MRTG reference documentation:

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg-reference.html

Look for "External Monitoring Scripts". You could write a script for the
MRTG that parses output of the ifconfig.

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Not quite, you can gather data in any form you like and feed it
to mrtg/rrdtool. You could even use the stats of 'ifconfig
<device>', there are some examples for using scripts in the mrtg
documentation as someone else already pointed out. Using SNMP is
just convenient if you have a large number of systems/targets.

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