seth vidal wrote:
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 21:07 -0600, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 18:02 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
>> Before we get started I'm hoping to get
>> cacti set up for a good baseline.
>
> Not to denigrate Cacti but you might want to take a look at
> Zabbix... It
> was recently included in FE (I did the review). It's a little bit
> trickier to set up but the polling is done using a server & agent
> written in C, as opposed to Cacti which is largely PHP. I've been
> working on a Zabbix install at work and I poll a number of variables
> every 5 sec.
cacti in php doesn't matter. It's the snmp interface in cacti which
does
the tricks and that's all done using snmp libs. It also has the
advantage of just being another use of snmp instead of being it's own
whole thing.
ZABBIX also uses the snmp-libs for the optional SNMP agents. I use
ZABBIX to monitor all of my servers and it suits me pretty nicely.
The ZABBIX web frontend is in PHP, just like Cacti's. See http://
www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/install_requirements_software.php for more
info on the software requirements for ZABBIX.
Nils Breunese.