Re: [hobbit] Hobbit + MRTG

[Jeff Stuart <jeff (at) myinternetservices.com>]

Ok, that begs the question then.  Is anyone here using Hobbit + MRTG to 
monitor bandwidth of multiple servers?  If so, how are you doing it?  

IIRC, MRTG uses snmp to grab the data from the machine.  Is it possible to 
have mrtg on one machine poll many boxes every 5 minutes?  Or is it better to 
copy the files over to the display server every so often? 

Finally, what about a client ext script that sent the current bandwidth and 
then hobbit stores it as a CSV graph or just as a standard external script + 
rrd data file?  

On Sunday 21 May 2006 5:19 am, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 05:01:24AM -0700, Jeff Stuart wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> > It's not very clear in the documentation as to if this scales to running
> > MRTG on multiple boxes that you're already monitoring and if hobbit will
> > actually display the graphs and if so, how specifically it will do it.
>
> The only thing Hobbit does about MRTG is to use the RRD files generated
> by MRTG and show them on the "trends" page for each host. So yes, those
> files will need to be copied over to the Hobbit server, specifically to
> the ~hobbit/data/rrd/HOSTNAME/ directory.

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