Network monitoring with Cacti (Linux.com)

[Posted October 28, 2005 by ris]

Linux.com looks at Cacti for monitoring Linux servers. "I recently set up three new servers at my university. To monitor and track various parameters, I decided to install Cacti to see if it lived up to the description. I previously used MRTG to monitor our network, but I was never able to configure it to my complete satisfaction. MRTG is pretty complex, and takes a lot of getting used to. The network in question comprises about 600 nodes. Three Linux servers prove DHCP, DNS, Squid network caching, and other services. The devices that I needed to monitor were the three servers themselves, some Layer 3 managed switches, Wi-Fi access points, and a few workstations."

Network monitoring with Cacti (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 28, 2005 19:55 UTC (Fri) by ninjaz (guest, #2083) [Link]

I looked into this package a few years back, but unfortunately, all of the packages I could find which provide SNMP-based trending would only use SNMPv1 (which relies on unencrypted community strings for authentication). Being security-conscious, I decided to forego the risk.

Happily, it looks like this has changed, at least for cacti, as a quick google search turned up this result:

http://www.linickx.com/blog/?p=9