[brlug-general] cacti

[-ray]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Dustin Puryear wrote:

> Cacti rocks. We use it all over the place.

I looked at Cacti a long time ago and it was ok.  I looked again and it 
seems really cool.  I setup and managed to get a graph of Apache server 
requests using the server-status handler.  It's a slight learning curve 
dealing with all the templating.

How are you guys doing data collection?  External scripts?  SNMP?  snmpd 
calling external scripts?  I'd like a little more granularity that the 
default stuff... for example a graph of each vmstat column would be nice. 
Our current homegrown rrd system is about 1200 graphs and 150 data 
collection scripts.  So the less i have to "touch" my systems (making 
users, copying scripts, setting up crontabs, ssh keys, etc), the better.

ray