As of cacti, 1.x cacti support remote polling which allows you to have multiple servers act as pollers the remote pollers send the data to the main server that holds the graphs
this is a great solution for load balancing as well as the ability to have local pollers at remote locations to help with things like latency metrics.
Updating Cacti can be easy or tricky depending on your system size and design.
In this post, I show you how you can upgrade your cacti system properly and safely
I have been working a lot with Cacti lately I had a need to make a script to ensure Cacti graphs were working and alert if they were not So I whipped up this little script that uses the rrdtool last update command which compares the value between polls the expected behavior of the RRD
Hey Everyone Just wanted to share some of my latest work I have developed an interactive install wizard for Cacti written in BASH this script is currently written for Debian based systems but I am working on others Some of the main features are -download either chosen or latest version of cacti -autoconfigure database either
New Cacti install wizard Bash script on my GITHUBRead More »
The Cacti installation outlines some recommendations for best performance while using Mysql or MariaDB
Hello everyone ! When installing some of the new versions of cacti you may come across these below 2 PHP errors related to a timezone which will prevent you from installation CACTI This is a simple fix that involves editing the php.ini for PHP and php.ini file for PHP CLI the PHP.ini files are
In my latest video I show you how to monitor your Debian server with cacti