MRTG & Ethernet Interface

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

"Matt" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> 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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Matt wrote:

> 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?

Take a look at MRTG reference documentation:

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/we...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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In comp.os.linux.networking ynotssor <(E-Mail Removed)> suggested:
> "Matt" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> 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.

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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