[hobbit] Hobbit + MRTG

[Jeff Stuart]

Ok, that is a bit more in line with what I thought how MRTG worked.  Figure if 
I run one collection server per noc, i'll be good to go.

On Monday 22 May 2006 5:43 am, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
> >>> jeff at myinternetservices.com 05/21/06 8:01 AM >>>
> >
> > Ok, I've read the Hobbit + MRTG page.  Now, question... I know I need
> >
> > to run mrtg on each machine that I'm monitoring BUT what I'm unsure
> > of is how does Hobbit know about this data?  IE do all the RRD files
>
> need
>
> > to be copied over at some point to the display server?
>
> WHAT?  MRTG only needs to be running on the collection server.
> SNMP needs to be running on the remote machine.  You need to read some
>
> MRTG docs to figure out what MRTG can do, and there is no reason to
> run MRTG on every machine you monitor.  I'd get shot if I asked to
> run MRTG on all 10,000 or so servers I'm monitoring...
>
> Paul
>
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