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Network monitoring with Cacti (Linux.com)
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."
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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
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