[brlug-general] cacti

[Dustin Puryear]

For Event Management, are those SNMP or can you dump syslog, Event
Log, and other things into it?

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Tuesday, January 23, 2007, 3:08:38 PM, you wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>   
>>> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>>>     
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>>   
>>>> 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.
>>>     
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>>   
>>> ray
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>>
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