[brlug-general] cacti

[Dustin Puryear]

Ronnie is our resident expert here at Puryear IT. I think he uses a
combination of local scripts that do remote logins and a few other
things. We will be moving to net-snmpd calling external scripts
shortly though.

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Saturday, January 20, 2007, 1:12:36 AM, you wrote:

> 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


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