I've got a Fedora Core 4 machine using mrtg to monitor a Dell Powerconnect 5224.

The MRTG setup took about 15 minutes.

A good resource would be to start at the MRTG website (google it).

There is plenty of documentation on how to do it.

good luck

hi,

mrtg is up and running on my nagios monitoring server.

now, my question is how to know which OID i should check to get interesting datas from my switch  ;-))

i' m really a beginner at snmp  ;-((

Florent

My suggestion is to let mrtg figure out the OID for the switch then adapt that to the nagios format.

Run
# cfgmaker --global 'WorkDir: /var/www/mrtg' \
--global 'Options[_]: bits,growright' \
--output /[path to mrtg files]/mrtg/cfg/mrtg.cfg
public@[device ip]

This will create a mrtg.cfg file after cfgmaker performs a snmp walk on the device.
That file will hold all the OID information for each port/device etc. You will then
have to create your nagios configuration from that.

I can't really help with Nagios since I've never set it up before.

ok, thanks, it was so simple  ;-))

i had to edit file to add non active ports

florent