[ILUG] system monitoring and logging s/w

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Chris Higgins wrote:

> If you are concerned about the impact of mrtg on the machines (and
> with a large mrtg config the impact is significant), then move the
> mrtg part to a dedicated (non service impacting) system, and just
> run the agents generating the stats on the live systems.

yes, this is what we do. we have one 'general' box, for reporting,
stats and the like. mrtg mainly gathering stats from important boxes 
via SNMP.

only problem in that dept. is that ucd-snmp is quite flaky.

Also, MRTG is quite a pain to maintain as it grows. i intend to write 
'templates' and then have a script to have maintain the individual 
configs files (which are all included into the main mrtg config file). 
but obviously that takes time.

--paulj