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| Cacti | tools | |
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| 23 | 7 | |
| 1,562 | 17 | |
| 2.4% | - | |
| 9.7 | 6.2 | |
| 8 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| PHP | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Cacti
Posts with mentions or reviews of Cacti.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-21.
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Periodic network saturation
If you have SNMP access to your switches, a very simple quick start is to use Cacti (https://www.cacti.net/) which will give you some nice graphs in no time at all. Far less complex than setting up/configuring a full monitoring system or NetFlow/SFlow.
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PHP errors with Cacti
This was fixed in the following commit https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/d1c1380ad9250c323f1dc874e26840c80edd3afb, I suggest upgrading cacti to at least the 1.2.20 version.
- CVE-2022-46169: Unauthenticated Command Injection in Cacti detected as being exploited in the wild - see comments
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What's a good free/cheap monitoring software?
Cactai is also free, but has a steep learning curve. https://www.cacti.net/
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Unifi SNMP & PRTG
Nice write-up! I've done similar with Cacti, which is free.
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Help out a new sysadmin?
Cacti - network monitoring
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Is there a good tool that I can deploy to a micro PC that can monitor/log/report different stats of network health?
https://www.cacti.net/.
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Show min / max temperatures in lm_sensors
Pretty simple request, but I couldn't find any solution on the internet, neither in Archwiki / Gentoowiki. There are some complicated things like cacti that can read sensord output, but that's a bit of overkill. I just want something like hwinfo64 for $forbidden_OS.
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Network Monitoring Solution
Just to throw this one out there, I use cacti https://www.cacti.net/ for my network monitoring.
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Possible to graph the number 'up' ports on a Cisco/extreme switch using SNMP
I''ve had good luck graphing our switch port statistics with Cacti.
tools
Posts with mentions or reviews of tools.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-28.
- Network Monitoring Solution
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How to see Temperature data?
So I looked this up. It's pretty basic from a MIB standpoint. I made an example generator.yml config file for you.
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Observium alternatives due to polling intervals
Specifically for JunOS, I wrote a special config that limits the number of metrics and breaks things up to avoid slowness.
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SNMP OID to poll to determine if a LAG member is down?
I have some need for this myself. This is my JunOS generator.yml. If I figure out anything useful for LACP, I'll post it there.
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Need help with MIB, OID, SNMP monitoring
This is the configuration I use. Maybe the output file would help you.
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snmp walk help/understanding
I updated my example to do just that.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Cacti and tools you can also consider the following projects:
LibreNMS - Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Munin - Main repository for munin master / node / plugins
checkmk - Checkmk - Best-in-class infrastructure & application monitoring
Netdata - The open-source observability platform everyone needs
Thruk - Thruk is a multibackend monitoring webinterface for Naemon, Nagios, Icinga and Shinken using the Livestatus API.
Centreon - Centreon is a network, system and application monitoring tool. Centreon is the only AIOps Platform Providing Holistic Visibility to Complex IT Workflows from Cloud to Edge.
snmpcollector - A full featured Generic SNMP data collector with Web Administration Interface for InfluxDB
Icinga2
snmp_exporter - SNMP Exporter for Prometheus
uptime-kuma - A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool