CPU utilization

[Thomas Sparrevohn]

On Thursday 13 September 2007 16:31:06 Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to Preethi Natarajan <nataraja at cis.udel.edu>:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Is there a tool similar to mpstat (or mpstat itself) available to track 
> > CPU utilization on FreeBSD? I am looking for something more elaborate 
> > than top, and was wondering if anyone could help.
> 
> Depending on what you mean by "track", you might find SNMP+MRTG useful.
> For example, I track:
> http://www.potentialtech.com/mrtg/cpu.html
> 

I must admit that I am missing a simple way of tracking idle CPU on a per CPU basis. Top and
PS output are not easy to work with - Does MRTG+SNMP allow one to see individual CPU usage?