Installing MRTG

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What if you could be always aware of what's happening on your machines? MRTG is a fantastic tool that keeps track of several processes on servers via SNMP.

This article shows you how to install MRTG and our MRTG addon on a Linux based machine (we do this for CentOS + BlueQuartz but actually works fine with every distribution).

MRTG itself

Login to your machine and become root with the "su" command. Then create a download directory, to be nice to your system, in root's home dir. Let's call the download directory "installation_dir":

Then locate the MRTG rpm accordingly with your distribution (we found it on the CentOS site)

OR (more easy)

Now you have to decide WHERE do you want to see your graphs and infos. Maybe you want to put a MRTG dir in your wwwroot where you will find all the datas.

Now you have to create a good configuration file located at /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg . Remember to replace PATH_TO_WWWROOT and YOUR_IP_ADDRESS with the right values:

To test the installation run (yes run it twice):

Now open the text editor

and type:

so that MRTG will run each five minutes.

Tha's It, wait ten minutes and point your browser to the MRTG directory created!