[Cialug] cacti

Jeffrey C. Ollie jeff at ocjtech.us
Tue Aug 28 07:27:11 CDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 07:13 -0500, Dave Weis wrote:
> Is anyone using cacti to probe large numbers of ports, around 1k+?
> 
> I'm using MRTG now to probe 50 or so ports and it's a bit unwieldy to 
> add that many, even with copy and paste.
> 
> I would love to be able to give it an IP and community and have it set 
> up everything based on the descriptions I have given the interfaces 
> manually.

Yup, Cacti rocks.  I monitor around 5K ports from a 1.8GHz PC w/ 1.5GB
of RAM.  It's UI could be better, but it's much better at monitoring
large numbers of data sources than anything I've tried so far.

Jeff

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