o Image files used by the generated HTML are now located in
/usr/share/mrtg. Please symlink these files to your hosting location.
-- Adam Majer May 7, 2008
This package was originally developed by Dermot Bradley
Important Notes:
o The default Debian snmpd config is simply too paranoid. This will cause
mrtg to fail. Change following portion of the snmpd.conf file
com2sec paranoid default public
#com2sec readonly default public
#com2sec readwrite default private
to:
#com2sec paranoid default public
com2sec readonly 127.0.0.1 public
#com2sec readwrite default private
General Notes:
o The Debian package currently doesn't make use of MRTG's daemon mode but
rather runs it via cron. MRTG is run as root from /etc/cron.d/ every 5
minutes and the directory /var/www/mrtg is used to store any generated HTML
files. If you are using Apache as your WWW server then you should use the
MetaDir/MetaSuffix directives to ensure that users see the most recent
graphs.
o To get started, you will need to run cfgmaker to create /etc/mrtg.cfg.
o As of version 2.9.2 the contributed scripts and configuration files that
used to live in doc/mrtg/examples are now in the mrtg-contrib package.
In addition, the output of the cron job is now written to
/var/log/mrtg/mrtg.log (it's rotated by logrotate)
o In the near future, MRTG will run as its own user (there are a few small
hiccups, hence the functionality not being in this package release).
o For those of you who are having problems using MRTG with UCD SNMP/NET SNMP,
it's probably access control related. If snmpwalk doesn't work successfully,
chances are MRTG won't either :) See the 'Access Control' section of the
snmpd.conf file for more information (make sure your community names are
properly mapped to security names, etc).
-- Shiju p. Nair Wed, 24 Feb 2004 22:59:12 +0200