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Originally Posted by Raistlin
Ok, for those of us that wouldn't have asked the question of we wanted to spend half an hour Googling for it.....would you care to elaborate on what MRTG is?
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My post was a quick knee jerk answer to a basic question of what someone could use to poll a remote machine. Sounds from the above that my quick reply upset you, sorry, but I certainly didnâ₠¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t intend to. If I did, I apologise.
Despite my age, Iâ₠™m very †œnewâà ƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚¬Ã‚ to forums and perhaps donââ‚ ¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t understand all the rules, unwritten or otherwise. Can I use my †œnewnessà¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚¬Ã‚  or old age as a grovelling excuse?
Anyway, to answer your question, MTRG was originally designed ( I think) to monitor traffic loads on networks, however, with a bit of playing around with the configuration file it will monitor just about anything. And indeed people do.
I am an †œold gitââ‚ ¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚ and have seen it used in just about every comms company I have ever visited all over the world. It is a remarkably versatile tool and I have found it very useful.
See
http://www.tenet.ac.za/ping-graphs/l...net_co_za.html to see a real time example of someone monitoring simple ping times.
The output graphs can be easily changed to show your results averaged over minutes, hours, days, months or years. Whatever suits your needs?
Being open source, ready made scripts are freely available to enable a user to monitor just about anything. It runs quietly in the background and you can access the results using any old web browser. Use it to monitor your own CPU temp, memory or bandwidth usageÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šà ¬Ã‚Â¦.whatever you can think of, you can monitor. And of course itâ₠¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s totally free.