MRTG

Pointers

• http://www.mrtg.org/
• http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/
• http://www.net-snmp.org/tutorial-5/mrtg/index.html
• SNMP
• UnixGeekTools - other great tools for unix geeks

Alternatives

• RRDTool - efficient and flexible reimplementation of MRTGs graphing and logging features
• http://cricket.sourceforge.net/

Perl

- Net::SNMP

RRDTool integration

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

From: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/mrtg-rrd/

The mrtg-rrd script is a CGI/FastCGI application for displaying MRTG graphs from data in the RRDtool format. It is an intended replacement for the 14all.cgi script. It can make your monitoring system faster because MRTG does not have to generate all the PNG files with graphs every 5 minutes or so. Instead of this the graphs are generated on-demand when the user wants to see them.

The main goal of this project is to generate the output similar to the MRTG native graphs as much as possible, providing the drop-in replacement to the MRTG-generated graphs. It reads the MRTG configuration file and understands most of the directive types in this file. It can display the single graph page as well as the directory index page with daily graphs.