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Table of Contents
 

1. MRTG architecture and related components

2. Installation process

2.1 Installing Perl
2.2 Installing MRTG
2.3 Running the HTTP server
2.4 Enabling SNMP support on the monitored hosts 
      Extended SNMP support for Windows based hosts (cpu, memory, disk, etc)

3.1 Building the “.cfg” configuration files
3.2 Building the “index.html” files
3.3 Configuration summary

4.1 Running command-line MRTG instances
4.2 Running MRTG instances as Windows NT/2000 Services

6. Installing and configuring the RRD database support

6.1 Installing the RRD database support
6.2 Configuring MRTG instances with RRD database support
6.3 Running MRTG instances with RRD database support
6.4 RRD Database structure
6.5 Resizing the database and extending it over a specific period of time

8. Generating on-demand MRTG graphs based on the data stored in the RRD database.

9 Monitoring generic SNMP OIDs with MRTG

9.1 MRTG configuration file review
9.2 Configuration file options
9.3 Configuration examples for custom SNMP OIDs (cpu, memory, disk space)