[Cialug] cacti

[Chris K.]

Dave,

I am using cacti for monitoring currently.

By probing ports, are you just ensuring the ports on the target 
server/workstation are open?

Anyway, cacti comes with a compiled poller (not php, think its C) for 
larger deployments.  Supposedly it polls alot faster than it's php 
counterpart, but I have never had a need to use it.  Polling 9 servers 
with about 6-10 services on each, plus service specific measurements I 
was still getting done in under 15-20 seconds or so.  Think the total 
came to around 20-25 items per server being tracked.

I am currently not tracking anything as I am going through a conversion 
on my home servers, but if you want to take a look at what I was 
tracking to put that polling time in perspective, you can hit 
http://tech.kulish.com/status

guest:guest

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.
>
> dave
>
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