Posts Tagged ‘cacti’

Cacti Plugins

The advantages of the cacti are having many plugins that is provided by a wide community of cactiusers.org. List of available 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 [...]

Building Cacti (Network Monitoring) in Windows Part 3

After cacti installation and configuration are finished , there are several more steps that need to be done so that cacti can be used as simple and easy to see the live network monitoring. For testing the way that cacti can be with the command: prompt> php c:\xampp\htdocs\cacti\poller.php The following message appears: If there is [...]

Building Cacti (Network Monitoring) in Windows Part 2

As already mentioned in the previous posting, cacti using rrdtool as the engine for network monitoring graphs generated by cacti. RRDTool(as network tools) is used  by many network-monitoring tools. The list can be seen in here. RRDTool itself is a tool-based round robin database. Designed to handle data-based continuous-time (time series data), such as network [...]

Building Cacti (Network Monitoring) in Windows Part 1

Are You a Network Engineer or network administrator? Definitely need a tool to monitor the condition of the company’s internal network and the Internet, especially if you have many links to branches in the region. But the tool to monitor network conditions is necessary, indeed many types of network tools that are required. Even many [...]

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 [...]