Nagios& Cacti - integration

Ralph Gerstmann · Joined: 29 May 2003 Posts: 3 Location: Munich

Hi Ethan,
Hi Ian,
(Hi Community,)

Thx a lot for providing the best GPL
System Monitoring Tools i ever saw.

Just to notice:
I have lots of experience with this subject.

I would love to bring the 2 best Solutions together:
Cacti for handling Web-Based, Template Based
RRD-Configuration
and Nagios for best Alarming and History Features.

Are you interrested?

What I actually need:
Web-Based configuration of RRDs (like in cacti)
with an add-on to set alarming-thresholds,
which are then sent to nagios for alaming.
Or an even better integration of your Tools.

The Problem is:
Both of your Projects come with their own polling-machine.

I can understand pretty well, that its no fun giving up
an own code one has written and established.

On the other hand,
if we marry your great Tools,
this would give them a drive,
IBM Tivoli will be afaid of,
like M$ is (qualified) afaid of Linux...

Any Ideas?

Cheers,
Ralph

http://Gerstmann.Com?language=e
http://GPLshop.Com (not really translated, yet)

Guest · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:27 pm Post subject: Me too!

I can't say nothing but a great "me too!"

Nagios already has a more than decent polling engine, while its UI, good as it is, is miles away from Cacti... not to mention the great RDD helper Cacti is, and built-in user management.

Nowadays Cacti's poller engine is even in its ways to be rewritten as a C multithreaded one. Shouldn't it be MUCH better peruse/adapt/integrate with Nagios one?

steveh@brendata.co.uk · Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Posts: 15

You can already interrogate the RRD files that cacti produces (i.e. let Cactio collect the data and you alarm off that), this eases the polling load.

I'd be interested in how people have addressed the shared usernames between the two and whether there's an easy way of getting common permissioning.

(I already use the exthostinfo to link to the cacti graphs as well).

ciccio 3 · Guest

Hallo all,

We are actually writing a perl script that reading some rrd files and a configuration file produce an email or a snmptrap
if the values in rrd are above the threshold specified on the cof file.

Anybody knows aboutr some script similar ?
In any case I could provide the ones that we did.

ciccio

NC · Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 7 Location: FRANCE

Brashquido · Posted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 10:39 pm Post subject:

A nice idea without a doubt. However, what about those of us based in Microsoft environments, Isn't Nagios a Linux only based package? And don't say swap, as in a business environment that isn't always an option (as in mine).

I actually came to the feature request section to ask if some kind of alarm/notification could be provided by Cacti. It's clear that it has really got it's stuff together regarding collection and the graphical display of data, but what about when everything goes pear shaped? I think it would be really good to include some alarm/event notification within Cacti that is OS independent as Cacti is now.

funkboy3 · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 1

I love the functionality of this patch. Unfortunately, I didn't know which version of Cacti it was intended for. I tried it anyway and it didn't work. So, a few tiny tweaks later, and here it is:
A patch for graph_view.php from v0.8.6b to allow use of names in the URL (exactly as per NC's original post in Feb).

Enjoy,
Andrew

kohly · Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 1

this is GREAT work!
thanx!