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Open source network administration with MRTG (NewsForge)

[Posted November 3, 2003 by ris]

This NewsForge article looks at MRTG, the Multi Router Traffic Grapher. " MRTG relies on SNMP version one, and optionally SNMP version two, to obtain data from routers or other network hardware. MRTG sends SNMP requests every five minutes and stores the responses in a specialized data format. This format allows MRTG to present the daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs without the data files forever growing larger. It does this by summarizing the older data as necessary. The graphs themselves are created in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format and can be included in Web pages or used in other applications."

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Cricket...

Posted Nov 3, 2003 20:50 UTC (Mon) by JohnBell (guest, #12625) [Link]

... is also a great package:

http://cricket.sourceforge.net/

Also..

Posted Nov 4, 2003 9:26 UTC (Tue) by kmike (guest, #5260) [Link]

Cacti is a tool similar to MRTG, written in PHP:
http://www.raxnet.net/products/cacti/

Open source network administration with MRTG (NewsForge)

Posted Nov 4, 2003 15:26 UTC (Tue) by pj (subscriber, #4506) [Link]

RRDTOOL (http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/) is somewhat the successor to MRTG... it's mostly the backend piece, with lots of different front ends available.