Thats funny you would mention that... my Cacti box IS running in a vmware virtual server!
Adam Melancon On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Brad Bendily <[email protected]> wrote: > After a bit of googling, it seems that there is some configurations for > getting cacti to handle traps. It may not be all native cacti, but it > works with cacti. From what i can tell, they send traps to the cacti > server, where they're stored in syslog. Then using the haloe plugin they > pull the traps from syslog and graph/store them in cacti. > > I don't have all the answers, but a few relevant threads are: > http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=26672 > http://forums.cacti.net/post-48177.html&highlight= > http://cactiusers.org/forums/topic489.html > http://forums.cacti.net/about10694.html > > > i love vmware, there's a vmware appliance for everything... > if you'd like to test some stuff before building your own box, or > test things on the vm before making too many changes on your box... > > http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/310 > "Network Management Station - Cacti, Syslog, SNMP Traplog, Apache and > MySQL" > > On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Dustin Puryear wrote: > > > Okay, I was wondering. AFAIK, Cacti just does graphing of SNMP data. I'm > > sure tools like Nagios, etc do work with SNMP traps though. > > > > Didn't someone come up with a Big Brother + Cacti integration dealie? > > > > Adam Melancon wrote: > >> Sorry, looks like I got caught in a "trap" and misunderstood the > >> request. I'm just using cacti to monitor SNMP, not to catch traps. > >> > >> Adam Melancon > >> > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Dustin Puryear <[email protected] > >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> > >> Wait. Cacti can do SNMP traps? What does it do with that data? Maybe > I'm > >> missing something.. :) > >> > >> -ray wrote: > >> > We use cacti too. Have you set it up to catch snmp traps? > >> > > >> > ray > >> > > >> > > >> > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Adam Melancon wrote: > >> > > >> >> I use Cacti for all my SNMP monitoring. It works great! > >> >> http://cacti.net/ > >> >> > >> >> Adam Melancon > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Brad Bendily <[email protected] > >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> >> > >> >>>> I am an SNMP newbie. I've started a project at work to monitor > >> >>> availability > >> >>>> of services on a server. These services support SNMP v1, but > >> the docs are > >> >>>> pretty slim. > >> >>>> > >> >>>> I've been playing around with Net-SNMP and can do a simple SNMP > >> get from > >> >>> my > >> >>>> workstation for the server's name and so on, so I know SNMP > >> works on > >> >>>> it. However, I can't figure out how to receive a trap from the > >> app's > >> >>> agent > >> >>>> on the server. There are too many factors with that > >> configuration to > >> >>> mention > >> >>>> now, so I'd like to pose a simple question. > >> >>>> > >> >>>> What is the simplest demonstration of a trap (both sending and > >> receiving) > >> >>>> using the Net-SNMP (http://www.net-snmp.org) tools? Can this be > >> done > >> >>> using > >> >>>> only Net-SNMP tools? I'm using Net-SNMP as it is > >> cross-platform. And yes, > >> >>> it > >> >>>> is open source. ;) > >> >>>> > >> >>> We have dell servers at work and usually install the dell open > >> manage > >> >>> package. This adds the dell MIBs so we can get all kinds of info > >> off the > >> >>> server via snmp. We use SuSE servers, the problem I have had > >> with snmp > >> >>> is that for different versions of the net-snmp rpm i have to have > a > >> >>> different snmpd.conf. This partly due to the open manage stuff. > >> To get > >> >>> open manage to work you have to enable "smuxpeer". For one rpm > >> version, > >> >>> the smuxpeer needs a password and you have to set the password > >> in dell > >> >>> open manage. For another snmp rpm you don't need the password at > >> all. > >> >>> for traps you need to enable them via the conf file, which will > be: > >> >>> > >> >>> trapsink 10.1.1.1 public > >> >>> > >> >>> The man page says you should also use: > >> >>> trapcommunity STRING > >> >>> defines the default community string to be used when sending > >> >>> traps. Note that this directive > >> >>> must be used prior to any community-based trap destination > >> >>> directives that need to use it. > >> >>> > >> >>> trapsink HOST [COMMUNITY [PORT]] > >> >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> However, our config doesn't use trapcommunity. This may be part > of > >> >>> something open manage does for us. But this sends traps to our > >> >>> open manage monitor server. Now we just need someone to monitor > that > >> >>> server! > >> >>> > >> >>> Hope this helps, let me know if I can do anything else. > >> >>> b > >> >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> _______________________________________________ > >> >>> General mailing list > >> >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > >> >>> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >> >>> > >> > > >> > >> -- > >> Dustin Puryear > >> President and Sr. Consultant > >> Puryear Information Technology, LLC > >> 225-706-8414 x112 > >> http://www.puryear-it.com > >> > >> Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" > >> http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> General mailing list > >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> This message was scanned by ESVA and is believed to be clean. > >> Click here to report this message as spam. < > >> http://esva.puryear-it.com/cgi-bin/learn-msg.cgi?id= > > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> General mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > -- > > Dustin Puryear > > President and Sr. Consultant > > Puryear Information Technology, LLC > > 225-706-8414 x112 > > http://www.puryear-it.com > > > > Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" > > http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
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