Designed for enterprises and service providers that need to collect time-series SNMP data from a large number of targets, RTG is a flexible, scalable, high-performance SNMP statistics monitoring system.
I’d like to monitor bandwidth usage. What should I use?
If you’re interested in monitoring bandwidth and have done a little research, you probably have run across MRTG, RRDtool, and Cricket. While these three packages are all fantastic and popular tools, you should also consider a lesser known tool named RTG. (Learn about all of your options, and then choose the utility that best suits your needs.) As of this writing, the current version of RTG, which is available from http://rtg.sourceforge.net and is licensed under the GPL, is 0.7.4.
Designed for enterprises and service providers that need to collect time-series SNMP data from a large number of targets, RTG is a flexible, scalable, high-performance SNMP statistics monitoring system. All collected data is inserted into a relational database that provides a common interface for applications to generate complex queries and reports. Currently the only officially supported database is MySQL, but PostgreSQL support is available in CVS.
Written in C, RTG runs as a multi-threaded daemon, making it extremely lightweight and fast. Unlike tools such as MRTG, it does no data averaging. The up-side to this is that you can get information from arbitrary time intervals and get exact information suitable for billing. The downside is that, as time goes on, you have more and more data to store (MRTG data files never grow due to the data consolidation algorithm it uses).
Installation is the usual ./configure&&make&&make install. You’ll need the MySQL libraries, often called…
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