[brlug-general] cacti

[Tim Fournet]

I've been really impressed with Zenoss. Don't quite have it running all 
the way yet, but that's due to lack of time on my part. I guess if I had 
it running, I'd have more time to do things like getting Zenoss 
running.....

Dustin Puryear wrote:
> 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:
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>> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Dustin Puryear wrote:
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>>> Cacti rocks. We use it all over the place.
>>>       
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>   
>> 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.
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>> 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.
>>     
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>> ray
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