Cacti
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I've long been a fan of Tobi Oetiker's RRDTool. It's fun to play with on its own, but it's also the basis for many open-source management platforms, and for some it's a component of a much larger platform. Heck, it's everywhere...it's even baked into the BIG-IP performance graphs. I've used it for many years and for many different purposes, but it intersected with my F5 world a few years back when I needed more granular views into the data than the BIG-IP graphs provided and my very expensive commercial tools didn't support the indexed mibs at the time. My RRDTool...
Welcome back for another episode of the ABC's of NSM. What's NSM you say? We'll go with Network and System Management, but you could throw Security in there as well. We'll work our way through the alphabet over the next several weeks looking at tools and concepts along the way for all the administrators out there. By the way, you can thank Joe for the format & Don for the title (I couldn't for the life of me come up with one.) Today's letter C is for Cacti, a web-based network graphing solution based on Tobi Oetiker's excellent...
