nt-guide

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NAME
       nt-guide - The Windows NT Guide to MRTG 2.9.17

SYNOPSIS
       Installing MRTG on an Windows NT or Windows 2000 box is not quite as
       click and point as some might want it to be. But then again it is not
       all that difficult if you follow the instructions below.

PREREQUISITS
       To get MRTG to work on Windows NT you need the following:

       o   A copy of Perl for NT from http://www.ActiveState.com (it must be
           version 5.005 or better 5.6).

       o   The latest version of MRTG from http://peo-
           ple.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/pub . look for
           mrtg-2.9.17.zip or better. The archive does also contain a precom-
           piled copy of rateup.exe for Win32.

INSTALLATION
       I suggest you do the following from the machine that will be running
       MRTG, which, in this case is also a web server. All examples are for
       doing things to a LOCAL machine.

       First
           Unzip MRTG to C:\mrtg-2.9.17 on the WindowsNT machine of your
           choice.

       Next
           Install Perl on the same Windows NT machine. You might want to make
           sure that the Perl binary directory is listed in your system path.

            C:\Perl\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;...

           You can manually check this by going to [Control Panel]->[Sys-
           tem]->[Environment]

       To see if everything is installed properly you can open a Command Shell
       and go into c:\mrtg-2.9.17\bin. Type:

        perl mrtg

       This should give you a friendly error message complaining about the
       missing mrtg configuration file. Now, you have successfully installed
       mrtg and perl.

CONFIGURING MRTG
       Now it is time to walk create a configuration for mrtg.



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