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In the need to have a firm grip of bandwidth allocated by providers and adequately manage bandwidth utilization, organizations tend to embrace flexible, highly reliable and cost effective means to meet their need.

According to recently gathered statistics, 70% of the providers in Nigeria deploy MRTG Tool for monitoring bandwidth leased out to customers. Most organizations in Nigeria and Globally have also embraced the use of MRTG tool for evaluating bandwidth utilization. The flexibility and cost of deployment of the open source solution makes it of prime preference to other tools. It is highly customizable and performance driven to get you what you really need.

The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network links, which will invariably aid in evaluating the bandwidth allocated per link. MRTG generates HTML pages containing PNG images which provide a LIVE visual representation of this traffic.

MRTG is a network management application that can monitor any remote network host, which has the SNMP protocol support enabled. MRTG, as a SNMP based application, runs SNMP requests against the target hosts on a regular basis.

MRTG is not limited to monitoring traffic, though it is possible to monitor any SNMP variable you choose. You can even use an external program to gather the data which should be monitored via MRTG. People are using MRTG, to monitor things such as System Load, Login Sessions, Modem availability and more. MRTG even allows you to accumulate two or more data sources into a single graph. The figure below is a typical illustration of MRTG graph: