Excessive network traffic -
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Mon Nov 12 03:40:49 UTC 2007
Bob Goodwin wrote:
> This morning I installed MRTG but despite the documentation I have not
> been able to get it to display anything except :
I could be wrong...but doesn't MRTG use SNMP to gather statistics? If the
device you are attempting to monitor doesn't support SNMP then that is what
I would expect...nothing.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ERROR: Mrtg will most likely not work properly when the environment
> variable LANG is set to UTF-8. Please run mrtg in an environment
> where this is not the case. Try the following command to start:
>
> env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> and then:
>
> ------------------------------
>
> env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg
> Usage: mrtg <config-file>
>
> mrtg-2.15.1 - Multi Router Traffic Grapher
>
> Copyright 1995-2006 by Tobias Oetiker
> Licensed under the Gnu GPL.
>
> If you want to know more about this tool, you might want
> to read the docs. You can find everything on the
> mrtg website:
>
> http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/
>
> -----------------------------------
>
> Can someone suggest what I need to put in the config file to view
> everything happening on eth0? I have not yet put anything in config.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bob Goodwin
>
> .
>
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