[CentOS] Graphing System Load MRTG

Tue Dec 21 18:57:28 UTC 2010
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

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.

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   Les Mikesell
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