[hobbit] Hobbit + MRTG

[Henrik Stoerner]

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.


Regards,
Henrik