Re: [hobbit] Hobbit + MRTG

[Sue Bauer-Lee <sblee (at) tazmania.org>]

I'd still really like to see a successful configuration that monitors
Cisco routers and switches. 

I've yet to be able to display the graphs for the few with successful data
collection; most of them fail and we're fairly certain it has nothing to do
with ACLs.

I was able to collect data for, which are few, and mo
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 05:33:27AM -0700, Jeff Stuart wrote:
> 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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> Jeff Stuart
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