Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a free performance management application for Unix; it monitors SNMP statistics from any SNMP-capable device on your network and:
⢠Captures, stores, and graphically presents SNMP data. By default, a web page with four graphs per MIB object (OID) is created by MRTG. The graphs show the variation of MIB data over time.
⢠Runs from the crontab. Every five minutes, a cron job runs MRTG to query a user-configured list of OIDs and network devices. After each data collection cycle, the MRTG perl script posts updated graphs to a web page.
⢠Efficiently compresses and archives data samples to create graphs.
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