Are there any instructions or is there a howto that explains howto transition from MRTG to Cacti? I have looked on the internet but I have not been able to find anything that does a good job at explaing this. Just as a side note, I am running FreeBSD and would like to use cacti port. Richard Hart I.T. Services, Network Analyst Christopher Newport University 757-643-8699 (tel.) 757-592-8370 (cell) Nextel DirectConnect: 166*16571*21 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães wrote: > Please take a look on http://www.cacti.net > > Cacti is a rrdtool frontend. Graphs are generated with rrdtool, data >collecting is done by cacti (you dont need MRTG). There are SEVERAL >graph templates ready for download and use on cacti forums. > > Building your own complicated graph templates with cacti is not >easy. There are several steps to go, but i'm absolutely sure it's far >easier than building the same graphs in rrdtool directly. > > Im using cacti to monitor medium networks with 100-200 routers and >it's going fantastic great !!! RRDTool advantages with a GREAT web >interface for configuring and visualizing graphs ! > > >Matt Kowske escreveu: > > > >>Well I just got into MRTG and think it's really cool. I have an index >>page with a bunch of graphs monitoring my servers at home. Just as I >>got it all setup I ran across somethings about rrdtool. Is this a >>replacement for MRTG? Should I be using it instead? I figured out >>it's a way to record data to a database, but then getting the data out >>of it and making graphs with it seems really difficult. >> >>What is the consensus? I think I'd like to use rrdtool in the long >>run.. it seems better, and able to do more. But I don't want to spend >>hours and hours setting up graphs. MRTG is easy... is there a >>compromise here >> >> >> >> > > > -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
