[rtg] Collecting CPU, DISK and MEMORY snmp data

[Brian T. O'Neill]

Well, to give you an idea my setup of RTG with targetmaker is collecting
47k OIDs on 586 devices in approx 30 seconds with an interval of 60
seconds.

Brian

Quoting Yu Safin (calanet at gmail.com) from  :
> Hi list,
> I am new to RTG and snmp in general and working hard to get up to speed.
> I was reading some discussions from 2003 and Feb 2005 on the subject
> of monitoring servers, particularly AIX, SUN, Linux and Windows
> (w2k/w2k3).
> I could not figure out how to change rtgtargmkr.pl so my targets.cfg
> can do the specific OID's needed for collecting CPU, DISK and MEMORY
> data.
> I came across www.misplaced.net/~btoneill/rtg that provides a
> replacement to rtgtargmkr.pl.  I am going to experiment with it since
> it seems written for more challenged snmp users such as myself.
> If this list has a better suggestion on how to speed up my learning
> curve it will be greatly appreciated.
> I am presenting a paper in Reno to a large Capacity Planning group on
> how to Plan on large Unix servers farms with 1000's of servers.
> I have written the simulation programs that can be used for "what if"
> scenarios (queueing theory).   However, collecting using the standard
> "sar/sadc" approach is very difficult given the large amounts of
> variations in the reports amongs the flavors of Unix/Linux.
> So my thinking is that RTG can do the heavy lifting to feed my
> simultion/modeling tool.
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