Archive for April, 2008

Using spine and poller cactid on Cacti

Spine, or usually called Cactid, is an alternative poller for Cacti, which is in addition to cmd.php default poller of cacti. The difference is with the spine, polling data more faster. Poller is written in C language, and link directly to the library net-SNMP, so minimize the time polling data. Should we need to use [...]

Posted: 23rd April 2008 under Linux, Networking.
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Displays Cacti Graph so that easy to read and nice graphs

To display the bandwidth usage on the cacti we have to be logged in (if you have authentikasi), we can display new graphed from cacti. We must go to Graph Management and go to the section we would like to see as follows: To make cacti graph look better, we use a php script, to [...]

Posted: 19th April 2008 under Linux, Networking.
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Building Cacti (Network Monitoring) in Linux Part 5

So that the graphics can be displayed periodically need to be made then the cron (as a task scheduler). Login sebagai cactiuser . . # su cactiuser $ crontab -e Enter the following line */5 * * * * php /var/www/html/cacti/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1 * / 5 * * * * php / var / [...]

Posted: 15th April 2008 under Linux, Networking.
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Building Cacti (Network Monitoring) in Linux Part 4

We need to make some configuration for Cacti, in general configuration, everything is on the Configuration -> Settings. At least the following configuration we need to setup in cacti: The General tab: Make sure this parameter is right to configure : SNMP Utility Version, RRDTool Utility Version, Version SNMP, SNMP Communitiy, Timeout SNMP, SNMP, and [...]

Posted: 12th April 2008 under Linux, Networking.
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Building Cacti (Network Monitoring) in Linux Part 3

Cacti configuration via a web browser. I use cacti version 0.8.7b. So the steps as follows:1. Point web browser to http://ip_server_cacti/cacti/ 2. Click Next

Posted: 9th April 2008 under Linux, Networking.
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