Questions tagged [cacti]
Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality.
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Munin vs Nagios
We're currently using Nagios to monitor about 20 Linux machines (services and functional links). I just find out about Munin and I wonder if this is a Nagios replacement, or it can be used together ...
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16TB Volumes and SNMP On Windows
As volumes larger than 16TB became more common, it was recognized that the 32 bit value used to report disk size and usage within the standard "HOST-RESOURCES" MIB in SNMP was not large enough to ...
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Netcat (nc) traditional package for RHEL 6.x?
I'm trying to use the Percona Apache Monitoring [Cacti] Template for Memcached.
They do indeed warn that you can't use the openbsd version of the package and provide a solution for Ubuntu/Debian ...
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Why does Cacti keep waiting for dead poller processes?
I am currently setting up a new Debian (6.0.5) server. I put Cacti (0.8.7g) on it yesterday and have been battling with it ever since.
Initial issue
The initial issue I was observing, was that my ...
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Nagios graphing solutions vs Munin/Cacti/Ganglia
I've got a nagios server setup for monitoring ~ 30 Windows servers. I want to add some trending charts. I've read that nagios graphing plugins are simple and many people use seperate, standalone ...
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Best tool for monitoring backups, etc. and trending statstics from that data [closed]
I have done some research on nagios, opennms, and zenoss but am not confident that I have found what I am looking for.
The main driving force for me right now is being able to monitor backups. This ...
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Is there a way to share S.M.A.R.T. data over SNMP?
Is there a way to share S.M.A.R.T. data over SNMP? I'd like to be able to make cacti graphs of it and hook it up to Nagios.
What I want to do is be able to get some statistics on my harddisks ...
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How can you debug a Data Input Method script in Cacti?
(See bottom for updates...)
I've written a data input method script for Cacti (in Ruby, to collects stats from beanstalkd) and it works from the command line (returning a single simple integer, as ...
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How do I collect SNMP readings from intermittently-connected sites?
I am collecting SNMP data on-site for a number of systems, currently using Cacti. These systems are spread on a number of sites that aren't always connected to internet, but I also need to centralize ...
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How to migrate all Cacti devices from 5 minute polls to 1 minute polls?
I have just taken over a Cacti server and am having a nightmare moving from 5 minute polls to 1 minute polls.
So far, I have changed the data template along with the Step (from 300 down to 60) and ...
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How to display a graph only for business hours with CACTI?
I have noticed that I can only display an uninterrupted period with CACTI. I am wondering whether is possible or not to make a custom graph which displaying only the business hours during a period (a ...
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What is the difference between nagios xi and cacti for monitoring?
Nagios XI (This is a commercial implementation of Nagios) can graph as well as send alerts based on threshold conditions. I am not able to understand the difference between Nagios and Cacti. Any idea ...
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PNP4Nagios, nagiosgraph, separate Cacti, or something else for Nagios trending
I've been using Nagios for a while now and recently started using Cacti after being dissatisfied with the lack of scaling and lack of any GUI in MRTG. I'm interested in adding trending to my Nagios ...
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Monitoring tool which does not average data over time [closed]
I am looking for a monitoring system like Cacti which doesn't loose data over a time, all the tools I have found use rrd files which averages the data as time goes by.
I would like a to be able to go ...
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Cacti graph not showing
I have created php script for cacti which outputs data in format like: <variable>:<value>
Output of my script: temperature:20 humidity:15
Then I created data input method where input ...
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Cacti Graphing incorrect load averages
I've just set up cacti to monitor CPU and memory usage on a server that I think needs to be upgraded, but to be able to make my case for funding I need hard facts.
I figured getting Cacti to monitor ...
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How Cacti collects data using scripts?
We know that Cacti uses SNMP to query and collect data. As far as i know SNMP manager uses Object ID (OID) to query about a certain object and get the response from an SNMP agent regarding that OID.
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How do I reconcile Network Speed from Network Throughput?
I have been arguing with my ISP about the service they are providing; primarily with regard to throughput speeds.
I have set up an edge router (see hardware details listed below) and on it I have ...
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Cacti not working for SNMP data sources
I installed packages cacti and snmpd on a Debian server. I'm able to display common graphs in Cacti (such as memory usage, load average, logged in users, etc) using the data templates listed as Unix. ...
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Howto prevent snmpd cache results from extend script
On my freebsd box i have snmpd daemon from net-snmp-5.5_4 packet.
In snmpd.conf file i have:
extend .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.2 inpt /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/etc/snmp/mpdinput.pl
where mpdinput.pl my ...
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frequent "SNMP error" with Cacti
When adding new devices to my Cacti instance, I get frequent "SNMP error" messages in the device screen. But the error is not consistent, not even for the same device. Here's what I already have ...
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Cacti - How can you get a list of systems that meet certain criteria?
Is it possible using Cacti to have it give you a list of machines that meet a certain criteria? For example, what are the machines that have had an average cpu load over 50% during the past week? ...
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Passing variable input fields for Data Input Methods [cacti]
I'm trying to get cacti setup to monitor a variety of mysql servers, each with multiple instances running on different ports on the machines.
I'm using the scripts and templates from http://mysql-...
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Cacti gets data but does not show a graph
I use Cacti to monitor the call load of a Squire MG1000.
I have created a graph using the SNMP Generic OID template.
In the graph overview, I also see data for current, average and maximum calls but ...
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Questions about storage performance
I would be glad guys, if you can answer me some of my questions about the performance of our storage. The setup
HP P2000 SAS with 2GB cache
8x 1TB SATA 7200 RPM storage
RAID6
3x hosts with SAS HBA ...
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Monitoring a ZFS Raid Pool on Ubuntu for Integrity and Performance
I set up ZFS on Ubuntu (via fuse) for a storage array at home and it has worked great for almost a year now, despite its 'beta' status. I log in and check the array every once in a while using:
zpool ...
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Graph VMware ESXi through Cacti
I have a server running VMware ESXi 4.1.0 and while I love the graphs within the vSphere Client, they provide no historical data with the license I have. Also, all my other servers are monitored via a ...
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Cacti - gathering data from remote servers
I currently have Nagios installation for monitoring various systems (mainly Linux). I would like to implement some graphing tool for historical data (CPU, memory, disk usage, web server QPS etc). I've ...
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Cacti rrdtool graph with no values, NaN in .rrd file
Cacti 0.8.7h, with latest RRDTool. I successfully graphed CPU/Interface traffic, but got blank graphs like this one:
...when it comes to Memory/Temperature monitoring.
The problem/bug is actually ...
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RRDTool Not Creating .RRD File
I'm setting up Cacti and it seems the RRDTool isn't creating the .rrd file. This is on CentOS 6.9.
Here is what I've tried so far:
Running the command as root to eliminate permissions.
Running the ...
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Cacti displaying an odd Total Space value for free disk space on ZFS mount
I'm not sure if this is just a quirk of how ZFS ZPL is presenting the available space, but it seems that SNMP is reporting the free space no more than 2TB higher than the used space.
This is on a ...
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Cacti Login Page: Infinite loop occurs
Apache 2.2.3 | PHP 5.1.6 | MySQL 5.0.77
I followed cacti installation guide to install latest cacti 0.8.7h on CentOS 5.5 (64-bit). The installation of PHP/Apache/MySQL went smoothly until I finished ...
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How can I recover rrd's when my clock got out of sync?
I'm using cacti, and I accidentally set my clock set ahead. Cacti updated, storing new data in the rra's - and now that I've fixed my clock, I can't get cacti to update again. What do I do?
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Is it possible show difference between two graphs in cacti?
I have cacti with a lot of graphs (interface statistics) and I need show the difference between two of them. Something like traffic=traffic1-traffic2 where traffic1 and traffic2 are interfaces on two ...
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Cacti: How to monitor Windows Hosts?
I have Cacti installed on a computer and SNMP enabled on my Windows Hosts (Community string : public)
How do I get the Windows Network Utilization, HDD, CPU, and more?
I would like a guideline on ...
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Bind Statistics (How to graph them into Cacti)
I have seen a couple of post on SF like;
Find out how many DNS Queries/month via WHM or SSH?
Nameserver usage
I want to graph statistics on 2 bind resolvers and 2 bind authoritative servers (into ...
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Migrating Cacti from Windows to Linux
I'm migrating Cacti from Windows to Linux and I've come across a bit of a problem.
The Windows server is running an older version of Cacti so I'm migrating it to version 0.8.
I've managed to port ...
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Cacti measuring Apache bandwidth
I've set up Cacti on my web server and it gives me graphs for Load Average and Memory Usage and such but I'd also like to monitor how much bandwidth my site is using.
I've been reading some of the ...
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Cacti doesn't show graph
Installed on Debian 6 - 64bit. Webserver : Nginx
Here is what I did so far:
apt-get install cacti and apt-get install snmpd
chmod 644 /etc/cacti/debian.php
Set date.timezone in php.ini
Added ...
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Debugging Cacti
I'm using the mysql-cacti-templates to monitor my servers. They include a set of MongoDB templates and tools.
So, I've got these running to monitor MongoDB connections. My poller reports:
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Grahping VMware VM's network traffic
We have a mixture of managed and unmanaged VMs within out VMware platform, For our managed VMs we use SNMP within the VM to graph the VM's network traffic which we then use for billing if the customer ...
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You don't have permission to access /cacti/index.php on this server
in cacti.conf I tried to edit the default context from localhost to 0.0.0.0 (and everything in between).
Now I only have
Alias /cacti /usr/share/cacti
<Directory /usr/share/cacti/>
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nsExtendOutput1Line Fails with SNMPD on Debian Wheezy
I've been trying to set up a a few SNMP extensions. Here's a sample entry from /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf on my target host:
extend php_pids /var/skotos/cacti/check-proc lsphp5
The program works fine:
# ...
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Cacti is ignoring hash marks in interface aliases
I'm attempting to set up Cacti to monitor a router's interfaces, and I'm having trouble getting the graph templates to show the information that I'd like.
Our interface configuration looks like this:...
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Gaps in Windows graphs in Cacti
Why would I'd be getting gaps like this in graphs coming from Windows hosts?
This problem seems to happen quite regularly on graphs coming from Windows hosts. The graph template for the graph above ...
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Monitoring IPSEC traffic on Cisco ASA
I have cacti monitoring a bunch of things on my Cisco ASA 5505s, but nothing to indicate the level of traffic flowing through VPN tunnels on them.
Is this data available through SNMP on the ASA, and ...
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Cacti per-process monitoring
Are there any Cacti plugins that lets you monitor per-process CPU/memory/IO, etc., similar to what Perfmon provides on Windows?
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Tools to generate a Cacti template from a MIB?
We use Cacti to monitor trends on our servers.
Sometimes I get a new appliance or a server, and that appliance comes with a MIB which can be used to monitor the appliance via SNMP. For this example, ...
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Cacti Graphing CPU / Memory utilization over time
Our shop already has several systems already added to Cacti for monitoring of network utilization.
I was wondering: Is there a way we could use Cacti to track RAM/CPU utilization over time? I have ...
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Cacti eating brackets when importing templates
I am running cacti-0.8.7d on a Fedora 10 host
the php version we're using is
/usr/share/cacti/scripts $php -v
PHP 5.2.6 (cli) (built: May 8 2008 10:23:54)
Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
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