[nycbug-talk] Cacti Replacement

Steve Rieger riegersteve at gmail.com
Thu Mar 26 16:17:38 EDT 2009


Pete Wright wrote:
> 
> On 26-Mar-09, at 11:38 AM, Steve Rieger wrote:
> 
>> Pete Wright wrote:
>>> Hey All,
>>> Wondering if anyone has seen a replacement for cacti.  Specifically  
>>> I'm looking for an easy to use snmp enabled graphing application.   
>>> Cacti is great if you have a handful of hosts and don't mind doing  
>>> everything by hand - but I'm finding it's scripting ability is 
>>> pretty  lacking.  While there are other nice tools out there for 
>>> plotting  network and system performance - most of them seem to 
>>> require an agent  (ganglia for example).
>>
>>
>> zabbix is easier and fully templated
>>
>>
> 
> yea we are looking at that - does it support plotting via snmp?  i was 
> under the impression it relied on an agent.
> 
> cheers,
> -p
it does

can send screenshots if you so want.

or if you have webex can show you what we have setup
we monitor netapp filers without agents.



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