How MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Graffer) works?
MRTG is a Perl based application for monitoring network hardware via SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Netw… To use it from a Windows workstation, you’d need to install Perl: http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?tit… ActiveState is a commercial Perl implementation, but it is, by far, the most stable version of Perl for Windows; if you plan to run MRTG as production router monitor, from a Windows workstation, ActiveState should be your foundation. The router(s) you are monitoring need(s) to be SNMP compliant, and to have SNMP functions running. This can be a major security problem for routers in the public Internet address space, so be sure to follow your vendors best practices for SNMP management of the device(s). SNMP can also present a perfo
