Oct
22
Cacti – Graphing Solution
Filed Under Administration, Monitoring Server, Projects, Work
I have been looking into various monitoring solutions at work. These range from full commercial solutions, such as SolarWinds, to open source solutions, like Cacti.
In the end, it was a suggestion by Seth that made me lean towards Cacti. Seth actually helped a great deal with the installation of Cacti, and after that I’ve been going crazy customizing and adding various machines to the monitoring server.
I have to admit, I am very impressed with what Cacti does as far as monitoring compared to commercial solutions. So far, the only down-side I have found is it lacks a bit in its reporting functionality.
I haven’t given up hope yet though, I am sure there are some decent plug-ins out there that might help me to achieve what I am looking for. In fact, I have already found a couple plug-ins that help, just not quite to the degree I need.