The advantages of the Cacti are having many plugins that is provided by a wide community of Cactiusers.org. List of Cacti plugins: Boost: To increase Cacti performance Clogs: To add a view tab to view Cacti log Discovery: auto discovery to detect the SNMP devices on the network with diferent subnet. Docs: To create a […]
Category: Cacti Examples
Multi-CPU Utilization Graphing in Cacti
The past couple days I’ve been installing and configuring a new version of Cacti (0.8.7c) from a CactiEZ v0.6 installation. I’ve been using Cacti for years now and love what it does, however I’ve found that tweaking it is sometimes problematic. Since I may go several months or a year or more between tweaking my install […]
Upgrade Cacti on CactiEZ Installation
After installing CactiEZ v0.6 (as a VM on Windows 2008 Hyper-V) which includes Cacti 0.8.7c I wanted to upgrade to the latest version of Cacti (0.8.7e as of this post). However I was not able to locate any good directions. Jimmy Conner who put together CactiEZ said to follow the directions for upgrading Cacti in the […]
Install CactiEZ on Windows 2008 Hyper-V
CactiEZ (Cacti Made Easy) is a self installing Linux Distribution based off CentOS that sets up and configures a customized Cacti install. Everything is designed to be completely automated and working directly out of the box. This compact distro is loaded with extra features such as Syslog and Netflow data collection, Weathermaps, Reports, Auto Discovery, […]
Bandwidth Monitoring Tools for Ubuntu
bmon – Bandwidth monitor and rate estimator bwm-ng – Bandwidth Monitor NG (Next Generation), a live bandwidthmonitor for network and disk IO cbm – displays the current traffic on all network devices iftop – Real-time bandwidth usage information on a specified interface iperf – Tool for measuring maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth performance ibmonitor – interactive bandwidth monitor […]
Install and Configure Cacti Network Graphing Tool on RedHat / CentOS
How do I install and configure common options to collect SNMP data and various other data (such as system load, network link status, hard disk space, logged in users etc) into an RRD? From the official project site: Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool, it stores all of the necessary information to create graphs […]
How to install Cacti on Debian or Ubuntu
Cacti is a web based PHP/MySql graphing solution using the RRDtool engine. Classically, it can graph network bandwidthes with SNMP. But in fact, a lot of different graphs can be done with snmp, shell or perl scripts. Cacti’s strength lies in the fact that it can be installed and used incredibly easily. You don’t need […]