Matthew Daubenspeck said: > I already have MRTG installed on a potato box, and polling a few > other devices on my LAN. So far it works perfectly. > > I would like to add the potato box to the list of hosts checked, > but am unsure which SNMP packages I should install. > > Any ideas?
snmp is, in my opinion a black art. despite my 10 years in computers, firewalls, networking etc i still can't make heads or tails of snmp/mib information. but mrtg doesn't require snmp it just requires a number, luckily enough. i use a bunch of shell and perl scripts to generate the numbers needed and put them in xinetd(or inetd) and use netcat on the mrtg side to connect. results: http://mrtg.aphroland.org/portal.aphroland.org/ the only thing from snmp is the ethernet traffic, which can be got by installing snmpd and running cfgmaker against the ip address(cfgmaker comes with mrtg), to give you the codes to tell mrtg how to get the numbers. most of the scripts are heavily customized to my own systems but if you really want i can make them available. ive gotten mrtg to graph everything from memory usage, to stock prices to virus attacks. it will graph anything, just have to give it a number to do it with. nate
