Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Link monitoring / CACTI

[James H. <ha...@wa...>]

Cacti, is a PHP front end to RRDTOOL.  It requires a web server and PHP to =
function correctly.  I don't think you really want to put that much =
overhead on a DL firewall.
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Personally I use DL because there are so little processes running.
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If you were going to monitor, I would think you would want a separate =
machine running Cacti ( http://cacti.net/ ), JFFNMS ( http://www.jffnms.org=
/ ), Nagios  ( http://nagios.org/ )or some other data collection software.
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If you have a extra machine lying around you might want to try this, even =
though it's a dead project.
http://sentinix.tigerteam.se/=20
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It's called Sentinix and has Cacti, Nagios, and some other useful =
utilities built into the distribution.  I have one of these boxes running =
and it monitors just fine.  Might give you a idea of what you like, then =
you could build your own system on a more recent distribution like SuSE, =
or Slack.

>>> Kari Mattsson <kar...@tr...> 11/13/2006 10:16 AM >>>
Matthew Hattersley wrote:
> Snmp monitoring could be the easiest. We also put bin versions of bwm
> and iperf on our DL boxes.
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> Iperf, to generate ip traffic, bwm to watch interfaces in realtime.
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> In order to graph the interfaces cacti is probably the easiest software
> to setup rather than writing your own RRD or MRTG scripts.

I have heard many really good news about Cacti.
Would it be an easy/good addition to DL?

> Cheers
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> Mat
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> Hi,
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> I have a devil linux box either side of a wireless link which is used to
> connect 2 offices. Can anyone tell me if there is a simple way to
> monitor the speed of the link between the 2 routers?
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> Am a bit of a newbie so the easiest solution wins!
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> Thanks
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> Ross