Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 00:40:37 -0800 From: "Jeff Mohler" <speedtoys.racing@gmail.com> To: "Howard Jones" <howie@thingy.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cacti -vs- mrtg Message-ID: <a969fbd10611070040g77a8329asddd54d3a70defbaa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <455041D4.5030702@thingy.com> References: <a969fbd10611062348r5d20f08ic0ed015607a81299@mail.gmail.com> <455041D4.5030702@thingy.com>
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Thats cool..I dont mind the plug. :) I want to build a flexable performance analyzer for netapp boxes on some very critical data..that I can customise per customer if I have to, down to a 10-15sec window. I'll have to check out the other tools..heck..I cant get a stock cacti install to make a graph of my localhost interface counts. I dont wanna get into that here however. Gimme a customer Pb of storage, and a SOW to configure it by... PS: Betcha never heard of the middle aged blonde singer dude fromthe UK. :) On 11/7/06, Howard Jones <howie@thingy.com> wrote: > Jeff Mohler wrote: > > I can use MRTG, and have MRTG do what I want it to do. > > > > Id like to try cacti, but..am I alone in finding that it's a PITA? > > > > Im not trying to be negative, just looking for a reality check. > > > > > > I like the simplicity of mrtg, but I like the "go back in time" of > > cacti to view performance data. > > > > > > If its just a matter of a package that's not ready for Joe Public > > (thats me)..Id accept that. :) > I think it's more that there's more than one kind of Joe Public. If you > want to present your graphs to your customers/users, or a subset to > different users, or apply the same set of graphs to a number of > different hosts, or make custom rrdtool graphs (stacks, additional graph > elements), then Cacti will let you do that. If you just want a quick & > dirty tool that's easy to configure for your handful of hosts, then MRTG > is just the job. > > We use both where I work, with Cacti for the bulk-graphing and customer > facing stuff, and some MRTG where I just knocked up a quick perl script > to measure something. Cacti has quite a nice plugin system, and > importable templates from other users that you might be able to use to > save yourself some time. I find getting my own templates working in > Cacti to be a PITA too, though. > > <shamelessplug>It also has some useful plugins, including a couple of my > own. The main one of those being PHP Network Weathermap > (http://wotsit.thingy.com/haj/cacti/) which will work with both MRTG and > Cacti, to produce graphical overviews of your network.</shamelessplug> > > Bear in mind there are also other tools out there in the MRTG/Cacti > space: DVG, NRG, Hermes, Cricket... rrdtool.org has a list of many. Most > are geared towards folks running 100s-1000s of graphs, that I have seen, > and may not be your kind of thing, as a result. > > Best Regards, > > Howie >
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