I have used mrtg and rddtool before and it has served my needs in the past.
Cacti network monitoring appliance.
Comprehensive polling options to minimise the impact on network traffic.
We ll be comparing not only features of cacti with popular alternatives but.
All of this is wrapped in an intuitive easy to use interface that.
The latest stable version is 1 2 14 released 08 02 20.
Once that is done you will need to add the new box as a device on your cacti web interface.
Network and web service response graphs.
Cacti virtual appliance and virtual box i wanted a fast and easy solution to do some monitoring on my network.
Whether your using cacti now or are looking for a comparable software package we ll go over some of the best cacti alternatives on the market as of 2019.
Cacti is a flagship solution among open source network monitoring software for it infrastructure in the field of graphical representation of the network.
A new cacti appliance for monitoring small to medium sized networks with up to 90 000 datasources.
Cacti requires mysql php rrdtool net snmp and a webserver that supports php such as apache or iis.
Configure cacti to monitor a network devices.
Cacti is an open source network and server monitoring graphing tool that is great for visualizing your data along with your systems on a very basic level.
It gives you the ability to poll network devices as well as track bandwidth usage and graph it very nicely.
Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of rrdtool s data storage and graphing functionality.
This time i wanted something that was move feature packed and robust.
The zabbix website bills zabbix as the ultimate enterprise level software designed for real time monitoring of millions of metrics collected from tens of thousands of servers virtual machines and network devices what i cannot convey to you reader from this quote is just how different the zabbix website feels from cacti s site.
When looking for an alternative to cacti we ll want to ensure that we get the same functionality if not more out of a replacement.
Cacti was one of the top open source monitoring software packages in the market several years back and is still used in various companies throughout the world.
After configuring you device to allow snmp polling you need to add your router to cacti so you can graph your network bandwidth.
Click add new devices and choose cisco router as host template.
Please see the requirements section of the manual for information on how to fulfill these requirements under certain operating systems.
