[Cialug] cacti

[Chris K.]

Dave,

Hopefully my little page showed you how you can divide the stuff up 
(even though Im not really monitoring anything right now)

Dave Weis wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Great, I want to watch DSLAM ports and was frightened to see them all 
> on one page.
>
> dave
>