It is a good idea, but there is such a wide variety of devices now, that I've found it's better to teach myself how to create a new cacti host template based on a numeric snmpwalk of a new device. In this case I'm talking about a crucial set of 6 to 10 individual OIDs for a radio such as RSL level, Tx power, input DC voltage, current modulation level.
It takes about one hour to two hours max. The major bottleneck is getting an accurate, verbose text description from each vendor of what each numeric OID in your snmpwalk represents, and things like its maximum and minimum possible integer ranges. After you've got that, creating the host template is easy. On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 3:00 PM, David <[email protected]> wrote: > I do like the idea of a paid support for maintaining a library of > templates for WISPS. > I only need two libraries to be concerned with Cambium and Mikrotik and > thats it. > If I had more time I would jump back into development for cacti. > I guess I could keep a site with a categorized set of templates for what I > have > > The one thing I want cacti to do is group host and load that group filter > as a default view and we can choose what default group we want it to be. > For example: Have a group for nothing but infrastructure and another for > subs(CPE) devices. > Then we have the standard filter for sub categories. > > That is a feature I would definitely put some time into doing. I am trying > to do some simple themes to change fonts and colors. > > > > On 03/18/2016 04:15 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: > > I just don't see the point of Observium (paid) when you can run totally > free software that is more full featured and actively developed by large > ISPs: > > > OpenNMS - is used as the primary alerting/NMS system for some very large > tier 1 and 2 ISPs > > Cacti - get it set up right with 60 second polling and properly > sized/stepped RRDs, and you can use it to chart things with any arbitrary > non-NMS datasource via shell scripts. > > Grafana - pull data from a time series database like OpenTSDB and graph it. > > > I don't rely on one but rather run cacti and opennms for everything. > OpenNMS handles the alerts and availability monitoring, cacti graphs layer > 1 and 2 parameters (optical DOM and RF variables) and layer 3 IP traffic > interfaces. > > > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Adam from Observium? He since has "recanted his views" after being >> banned from a forum or two and reddit and then started bleeding >> customers. >> >> Their supported devices page are now full of stuff most WISPs and MSPs >> use. >> >> BTW, observium is awesome and the paid version (like $225 a year) now >> supports custom devices/OS's/OIDs. >> >> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:29 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > bad fire >> > >> > would the guy from that nms who hated the customers be in charge >> > >> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:10 PM, SmarterBroadband >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> A number of us are cacti users. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Who would be interested in forming a group, where we all pay a small >> >> monthly fee to have a “company” build and manage a cacti template >> library >> >> for us? We would specify our template requirements. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> They would be expected to; >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Create templates as requested. >> >> >> >> Update templates for new firmware. >> >> >> >> Keep a library of all templates. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> I don’t know what company yet. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> What do you think? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Adam >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your >> team as >> > part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. >> > > >
