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  Getting MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher) to Poll multiple network devices. The Fedora Core MRTG installation process create a CORN file named /etc/corn.d/mrtg . This file tells the corn daemon to run MRTG using /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg file every 5 minutes to poll your network devices. You can configure MRTG to poll multiple devices, each with a separate configuration file. 1. Create a new configuration file using the steps from the previous section, choose a file name that is not mrtg.cfg 2. Add a new MRTG lene in / etc/corn.d/mrtg for each new configuration file you create. 0-59/5 **** root env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg  /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg 0-59/5 **** root env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/dervice1.cfg 0-59/5 **** root env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/device2.cfg 3.Run the indexmaker command, and include all of your /etc/mrtg configuration files. 4. Other versions of Linux keep their MRTG corn entries inside /etc/corntab file. Edit this file using the same syntex. Now , re...

  MRTG [Multi Router Traffic Grapher]  is a Free Software for Monitoring Network Performance in Graphical form. Here we will discuss the installation process of this free software in Linux distribution. For Linux System ,we need to install the following software MRTG [latest version] SNMP Apache Web Server   MRTG How to Configure the MRTG ? When MRTG's rpm is installed, it creates a directory called /etc/mrtg. To create a replacement, default /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg configuration file for server , follow these steps, 1 .Use MRTG's cfgmaker command to create a configuration file named mrtg.cfg for the server. Using a read only community string of craz33guy. Place all data files in the directory /var/www/mrtg. root#cfgmaker --output=/etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg --global"varkdir: /var/www/mrtg" -ifref=ip --blobal 'option[.] : growright, bits crez33guy@localhost NOTE :- -if ref=ip cfgmaker command option instruct MRTG to use the interface's IP address as the title for each grap...