CACTISYSTEM MONITORING & MAINTAIN

Cacti is a system

monitoring tool

store all of the necessary information to create graphs…

…and populate them with data in a MySQL database

PROGRESSING

Poller

RRDTool

Cacti

1. Data Retrieval

2. Data Storage

3. Data Presentation

SWITCH SERVERROUTER

SNMP DATA SNMP

DATA

SNMP DATA

DATA RETRIEVAL

DATA STORAGE

RRDToolStore

CACTI

Create graphs

.rrd

Round Robin Databse

DATA PRESENTATION

CACTI

Presentation

Web Browser

ADVANTAGES

organize information in hierarchical tree structures

use all the functionality of rrdgraph……automate how they are displayed

supports SNMP

reutilize graphics definitions, data and device sources

many plugins

manage users locally or via LDAP

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DISADVANTAGES

configuration of Interfaces is Tedious

configuration of Plugin Architecture is non-trivial

upgrading versions con be complex

CACTI SERVER

.1 .2

CLIENT + PRESENTATION