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To: John-David Childs <jdc@denver.net>
From: Gary Schrock <root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu>
Subject: Re: bandwidth monitoring?
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At 11:23 PM 7/21/97 -0600, you wrote:
>> >MRTG 2.4 is in the ports collection.
>UCD-SNMP (also in the ports collection) can be used to set up SNMP on any
>*nix box.  It is extensible to the point that I can litterally write a
>script to monitor just about anything I want and graph it via MRTG (or
>stuff it into nocol for threshold monitoring).

Whelp, thanks for the suggestions.  After looking into these packages a
little more carefully I was able to figure out how to get them to do
exactly what I wanted.


Gary Schrock
root@eyelab.msu.edu