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Thomaschaaf
Asked: 2010-01-08 09:32:19 +0800 CST

Cacti - central server to check status

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Hey is there a way to setup one server for cacti and having all the other servers send their data to it? I would have thought, that the poller sends all the info to the central server including the rdd files etc.. is there a way to do this?

Is there maybe a simple simular tool to do this if cacti does not have that capability? I would like to check CPU load, Disk space, RAM usage, Process number, logged in users... nice to have would be ping, disk i/o

I would love a simple setup and client I can run on all my debian machines...

cacti monitoring

3 Answers

  1. Yeah, it's called SNMP, and it should be how Cacti works out-of-the-box. Have you read the Cacti docs? It should explain how to set up SNMP polling - the monitoring server asks, the monitored servers do not send*.

    *unless you configure SNMP traps, syslog, or other complexities.

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  2. I have no experience with Cacti, but I used Munin before for this kind of monitoring. There are Debian packages for it in the standard Debian repositories. On the central server that collects the data, you need to install the package "munin", and on the nodes that you would like to monitor, you install "munin-node". I have used it before and it is very very simple to setup. There are several plugins included to monitor stuff, and I think that all the things that you asked for are supported with the standard plugins. (Search the debian repository for munin to find packages with extra plugins.)

    Munin

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  3. I would say without doubt, switch to Zabbix, it will fit your needs.

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