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Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality.

Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with hundreds of devices. More information can be found on the Website

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how to set up lots of Cacti devices and graphs?

I have many virtual machines that I would like to monitor with Cacti. Is there a script so that I can easily create about 100 entries? I am tired of repeating the same mouse clicks over and over again for each single virtual machine.
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How come the netflow data isn't showing up on the server?

I have a mikrotik router and it is sending trafficflow (fully compatible with netflow) data to my debian server that is running cacti. But after installing cacti's flowviewer plugin, cacti doesnt show any information. The directory I made on the…
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Need help in Haproxy socat for cacti

am using the haproxy socat to get the sessions data to plot it in cacti, /var/run/socket-haproxy is owned by www-data (the user which cacti uses) but when I try to execute this command as www-data am getting permission denied, any help would be much…
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ifDescr but no ifInOctets

Cacti 0.8.7i | cisco WS-C2924-XL | Traffic monitoring [root@centos cacti]# snmpwalk -v 1 -c public IF-MIB::ifDescr IF-MIB::ifDescr.1 = STRING: VLAN1 IF-MIB::ifDescr.2 = STRING: FastEthernet0/1 IF-MIB::ifDescr.3 = STRING:…
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Cacti Threshold for Link Traffic Sudden Drop

I have the Thresholds module (0.4.2) installed for Cacti (Cacti Version: 0.8.7g, Plugin Architecture Version: 2.9) but I can't figure out which settings I need to use, to make a threshold alert, for a sudden drop in link utilisation. I want to be…
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Cacti can't connect to mysql

I got cacti running the mysql monitoring templates (http://mysql-cacti-templates.googlecode.com/files/better-cacti-templates-1.1.8.tar.gz). I have multiple servers with each running multiple mysql instances on different ports. I'm getting tons of…
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Cacti Permisions Error

I installed Cacti + RRDTools yesterday via yum on CentOS 5. Everything appears to have installed correctly and the cacti directory is located /var/www/cacti. I setup a sub domain to point to it. However, my issue is that I always get a 403…
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How to migrate from Nagios + Cacti to Icinga?

I would like to migrate from Nagios + Cacti to Icinga. Because I would like one interface for active and trends monitoring. What could be problems and how to solve them?
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Will running RRDtool or Cacti slow down my servers performance?

I'm consider running some performance profile tools like Cacti for my server, but I'm concerned that running RRDtool or Cacti slow down my servers performance? Is this a valid concern for me? Or rather, how can mitigate this? Can I run the profiling…
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Are there any .NET alternatives to RDDtool?

I've never heard about RDDtool or Cacti until the StackOverflow krew mentioned it in a blog, which is how they keep tabs on their network bandwidth. Are there any .NET alternatives to RDDtool or Cacti? I will not install MySql and/or PHP on our…
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OpenSource management tool for measuring and reporting on power efficiency of Servers

I would like to measure the power efficiency of servers (virtualized) using an opensource management tool like Nagios or OpenNMS. Cacti also might be useful for it's historical graphing capabilities, but it doesnt seem to be as flexible as Nagios…
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openvz graphing user_beancounters

We run a cluster of openvz servers and are looking for a way to automatically graph the content of user_beancounters for all ves. We currently have a fairly rudimentary cron which alerts us when limits are hit but we could like a graphing solution…
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Apache2 is serving "download" document instead of website

I updated my Ubuntu server this morning from 20.04 to 22.04. Apache2, PHP, Mysql all got updated in the process. I have Cacti installed on this server to monitor a few of our switches and firewall. After the OS update, when I try to visit the Cacti…
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Specify directory location for sub domain in nginx for cacti

I'm trying to make Nginx serve Cacti (a php monitoring app) from a subdomain, using the following configuration: server { listen 80; server_name cacti.mydomain.net; return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri; } server { …
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Cacti Graph - Raw value instead of average

Problem 1: I have the custom script that output's "processes:" and I've graph template Item #1 Graph item type as "Line1" and CF Type "LAST" but that would throw "ERROR: the RRD does not contain an RRA matching the chosen CF". So I chose CF…
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