Howto install mrtg on debian
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MRTG also known as "Multi Router Traffic Grapher" is a project by Tobias Oetiker at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich. MRTG allows you to monitor various aspects of your computer, e.g. the traffic, that is going over your network interfaces. Get more information on MRTG at http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/
install appropriate packets via dpkg:
# apt-get install snmp # apt-get install snmpd # apt-get install mrtg
backup snmpd.conf
create snmpd.conf: "rocommunity public":
# snmpconf
create mrtg.cfg:
# cfgmaker # /usr/bin/mrtg /usr/home/mrtg/cfg/mrtg.cfg
add to crontab:
# crontab -e
then add to the content:
5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55,00 * * * * /usr/bin/mrtg /home/mrtg/cfg/mrtg.cfg
