Re: [cacti-user] Cacti with SNMP

[Reinhard S. <Rei...@te...>]

ben...@st... wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I think this should be easy if I owned the switches, but the colocation 
> facility owns the switches.
> How can I make cacti graph bandwidth info for multiple servers?  Here's 
> what I want to do and explain what cacti can do.
> 
> I need it to create bandwidth usage graphs where it would grab the info 
> from SNMP from the switches managed by the colocation facility.  The 
> software would need to ONLY be installed on server #1.  Each dedicated 
> server client would have their own login to server#1 to see their own 
> dedicated server's bandwidth usage graphs.  I don't want any software 
> installed on client servers (only on server#1).  I want the software to 
> read from the SNMP from the colocation facility's owned switches.
> I don't want to install SNMPd on each client server.
> 
> Thank you.

If you have SNMP read access to the switches, this is doable.

But it is a task to relate all switch ports to the related servers and to
provide access to those graphs only, that relate to servers of each respective
client.
All this can be done with cacti
Reinhard