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MRTG is open-source systems monitoring software.

MRTG is an open-source systems monitoring software solution. Normally used in conjunction with the RRDTool database backend, it is commonly used to monitor network traffic but may also be used to monitor anything else for which statistics may be obtained on a regular basis.

The website is http://www.mrtg.org/

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snmp MIB-TCP::tcp not showing any usage

I am trying to configure MRTG on all of my servers for making a network weathermap, this requires running SNMP which MRTG gets the information from. So, I installed it on two servers the exact same way. However, on the 2nd server, SNMP is not able…
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MRTG + RRDTool Hourly Graph

I am using MRTG + RRDtool to monitor the bandwidth on each switchport of a Cisco Catalyst 2950 via snmp. Is MRTG capable of generating an hourly graph? With RRDtool I was able to set the interval to 1 minute in hopes of getting a more detailed…
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How to monitor dynamic network interfaces with MRTG? (*nix)

Every time I restart my OpenVPN tunnel it increments interface's number and breaks MRTG graph for the interface. IF-MIB::ifName.76 = STRING: tun_w after restart: IF-MIB::ifName.77 = STRING: tun_w Any way to fix it?
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Is it feasible to poll traffic readings from Cisco switches more often than every five minutes?

Putting together a simple MRTG-like setup to monitor the load on our network switches. I've been told that Cisco switches are set up to be polled every five minutes, but we would like to get more precise readings, maybe once per minute. Is this…
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How i can monitor Http hits using mrtg?

Greetings ... How i can monitor Http hits using mrtg on linux server (RedHat) ? and what are the requirements for that process?
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What account does mrtg usually run as and can this be changed?

CentOS 6 / MRTG 2.16.2 I've noticed that mrtg is running as root on one of my servers and that concerns me. Is this a requirement? I didn't see it mentioned in the mrtg documentation. Can this be changed?
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What is the correct way to log PHP script's execution time and memory usage?

I want to monitor the execution time and memory usage for my web application running on Nginx + FPM. To that end, I am generating execution time and memory data in the page footer. I can also insert this into the FPM error log file, to be read later…
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MRTG Total Throughput in Week/Month

We have been running MRTG for quite some time to keep an eye on our router usage at remote offices. We now have a need to see roughly how much data (pref in GB) has been transferred over the link. Can I get MRTG to tell me this info, or am i going…
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"Unable to open MRTG log file" error with nagios and mrtg

We have a strange issue with our setup of icinga / nagios and mrtg. Icinga is working great and has no problem, it can monitor basically everything without issues. We setup mrtg to gather bandwith data from our routers and switches. MRTG is working…
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real time traffic monitoring with rrd

Is there any way to monitor bandwidth in visualization form with RRDTool?
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Example mrtg config to monitor Cisco CPU/memory usage

I have an existing basic MRTG setup done using cfgmaker to monitor the traffic of our Cisco router. I'd like to add configuration sections to mrtg to have it monitor the CPU usage (min/avg/max if possible) and memory utilization of the router. I'm…
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use mrtg to indentify bandwidth hogs

Can I use my mrtg setup to somehow identify which IPs are eating all my bandwidth? Or is there another tool that I can use to do this against my Cisco PIX? Thanks!
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configure mrtg on ubuntu linux and IP alias

I have configured MRTG for bandwidth monitoring, and seems to work, now, how can i configure MRTG to monitoring IP aliases? I mean with ifconfig: eth0 eth0:1 eth0:2 eth0:1 and eth0:2 are aliases For the real phisic interface /etc/mrtg.cfg is as…
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Get MRTG to run as Windows Service

We just installed mrtg on our Windows Server 2012 and I am having trouble getting it to run as a service. I'm following the guide here, but am still stuck. First, if I run mrtg manually, whilst specifying a config file, it does work and does…
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Update year graph MRTG

I have migrated my old 2.16 MRTG environment in a RHEL 6 machine to the new 2.17.4 a while ago and I keep having the same problem, my day, week and month graphs are updated as they should be with crontab but the year graph is not. When I first…
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