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How to set up MRTG Multi Router Traffic Grapher on a Win XP computer

First enable SNMP: Go to
Control Panel
Add/Remove Programs
Add/Remove Windows Components
and make sure the Management and Monitoring tools is checked.

You will also need, if not already installed - Active Perl http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/

mrt

2.15.0

Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch> and Dave Rand <dlr@bungi.com>

Tobias Oetiker wrote MRTG with Dave Rand
Available here http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/

Go to Downloads
Stable Release
and you want mrtg-2.15.0.zip - download, unzip and install

Go back to website - go to documentation - you want mrtg-nt-guide and follow instructions to build a config file. You will need to add extra lines to the config file (mine is here).
You will need to add extra files to monitor various parameters. These need to be placed in your mrtg-2.15.0/bin folder. (perl scripts here)
The program b2status.exe will need to be added to the bin folder. This is the 60Kb file available from me if required.
Download all files here

Eventually you should be able to go to the command line wherever your mrtg.cfg file is and write
perl mrtg mrtg.cfg
files should start to build in folders established in the config file.

For more detail see a .pdf file of an article I wrote for The GEO Quarterly #15 Sept 2007