On 12/21/2010 12:41 PM, John Jasen wrote: > On 12/21/2010 11:09 AM, Matt wrote: >> I check system load like so: >> >> [root at server cron.daily]# w >> 10:07:33 up 4 days, 15:01, 2 users, load average: 4.22, 3.17, 3.09 >> >> I would like to to graph the 3.17 5 minute average with MRTG. Anyone >> know of some examples of doing this? > > The easy way or the hard way? > > The easy way: > > You take the snmpget command someone else previously provided, convert > it to the oid, add it to the appropriate place in your mrtg.cfg (If I > recall correctly). > > The hard way: > > use one of the shell scripts provided, cat /proc/loadavg, or your perl > script to grab the values, figure out how to stuff them into rrdtool, > then figure out how to convince mrtg to render the resulting rrd files. > > Really, the best way is to install cacti, and be done with it, as others > have suggested. Cacti is in the epel repository, so if you have that configured it is just 'yum install cacti' and you are pretty much done. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com