Comments on: MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher): How to setup MRTG in Linux to monitor Bandwidth usage?

By: abbas

abbas — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:07:45 +0000

when i enter snmpwalk -v 1 -c public localhost IP-MIB::ipAdEntIfIndex
this command do i have to replace IP with my own ip or not ? one more thing when i enter this command it says

-bash command not found

By: Agyan

Agyan — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:04:40 +0000

Is it possible to configure MRTG to show only half the rate of actual rate? if yes, how?

By: Nahush Mundra

Nahush Mundra — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:22:49 +0000

Dear sir ,

Please send the configuration step by step of MRTG server in linux
Yours response will be highly appreciated

Thank you..!!!

By: Nahush Mundra

Nahush Mundra — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:21:08 +0000

Dear sir please send the configuration step by step of MRTG in linux RHCE…Yours response is highy appreciated.

Thank you!!!

By: borja

borja — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:50:25 +0000

You only have to coment one line on /etc/httpd/conf.d/mrtg. You must replace allow 127.0.0.1, with allow any.

By: Sunny Walia

Sunny Walia — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:26:42 +0000

Towhid:

Have you restarted apache since you added allow? Also check your error_log file and see if it has any more details.

By: Towhid

Towhid — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:56:57 +0000

Dear Sunny this is my httpd.conf entry for alias

Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1 192.168.7.0/24

Still i am getting following error

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access /mrtg/ on this server.
Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at 192.168.7.96 Port 80

Please help me out.

By: immortal

immortal — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:57:49 +0000

Dear all,
like the above, i get

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access /mrtg/ on this server.
Apache/2.2.14 (EL) Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80

when i put the http://127.0.0.1/mrtg in the browzer.

anyways, my intention is to play around with the configuration of the MRTG in localhost( i mean in my computer)..but no other devices.

Please any one ..help..me

By: Sunny Walia

Sunny Walia — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:11:54 +0000

You are very welcome Alex. If you have any questions, you can post ‘em in the forums section and I will try to help as I get a chance

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:38:40 +0000

Sunny Walia thanks for your time, I’m learning a lot here.

ps to shamshad: are you kidding?

By: shamshad

shamshad — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:50:57 +0000

Dear Sir,

I have to configure MRTG in linux server please send me the configuration details so that i will configure easily.

Waiting for you reply.
Thanking You

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:07:01 +0000

Hey guys… got another question… quite important for me… I have two ASA5505 being monitored by MRTG right now and they output seem great…

The million dollars question is… how do I monitor the VPN tunnel between them? I just want to measure the traffic on the tunnel.

Appreciate any kind of help… point me to a link would be good enough… been asking Dr. G and he has too many vague answers Thanks!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:08:04 +0000

Hi Sunny,

Thanks! Turns out mrtg is already defined as an alias prior to my alias… which points to a place where apache user cannot access…

I was also able to run cfgmaker couple times with different *.cfg output files, then run indexmaker with those multiple *.cfg files by separating them with space…. turns out MRTG now runs monitoring on all those devices… I feel good

By: Sunny Walia

Sunny Walia — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:04:14 +0000

Kevin,

Make sure below line in httpd.conf includes your own ip:
Allow from 127.0.0.1 192.168.30.0/24

Add it in and restart apache and see if it works.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:08:00 +0000

Hi guys…

I got everything done as instructed above… but I got permission problems

Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /mrtg/ on this server.

——————————————————————————–

Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at 192.168.159.11 Port 80

Can someone point me in the right direction? I did make the /home/mrtg folder permissions 755, then 777… to no avail

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:52:59 +0000

Thanks a lot for the instructions, worked perfectly. I also managed to have multiple devices in one page with mrtg, basically you have to set up a separate workdir and .cfg file for every device, add the crontab entries and then link all the .html pages in the main .index.html
(or just copy&paste relevant sections from the other index.html pages to the main index.html).

By: Trophaeum

Trophaeum — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:33:12 +0000

Thank you very much, i was hitting my head against the wall just now with the snmpd.conf and this worked perfectly!

By: Khalil Amar

Khalil Amar — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:44:21 +0000

How do you monitor many servers from one _SERVER/mrtg/index.html ?

By: mrtg

mrtg — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:37:41 +0000

mrtg installation