Install, configure, and use MRTG on Linux to monitor network systems and devices by using this tutorial as your guide.

Distributed monitoring. Clients for Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac OS X and commercial UNIXes. Database back end (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL or SQLite). Auto-discovery mode. Web-based interface.

Cacti makes use of the Simple Network Management Protocol to gather and monitor traffic from network devices, and can be installed on various Linux distributions.

Paessler’s PRTG Network Monitor Version 8 adds new agents for physical and virtual machines along with new methods to monitor Linux-based systems.

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) has been an integral part of monitoring network environments since its introduction in 1988. It has established itself as the de facto standard in network ...