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knebb
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Joined: 19 Sep 2006
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 Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:35 pm Post subject: [INFO] Cacti 0.8.6j in a Virtual Machine |
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Yohoo!
I created Cacti 0.8.6j and serveral plugins in a virtual machine (VMware).
It's ready to go. My start with Cacti also was the VM downloaded from the cacti server. I added one example host and some nice graph templates, so startover would be easier than installing from scratch.
568MB in size.
Someone interested? A place where I can drop it for downloading?
If not, I'll keep it for myself  |
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knebb
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Joined: 19 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:01 pm Post subject: Re: Someone interested? Cacti 0.8.6j in a virtual machine |
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I put it on my server.
But I only have limited traffic, so I will remove it if there will be a lots of downloads.
With bz2 the size decreased to 494MB.
BTW: It's based on CentOS 5.
Comments welcome. |
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generic_user
Joined: 15 Jun 2007
Posts: 25
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:48 pm Post subject: Careful of SAN storage |
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| We P2V'd our Cacti machine and the performance is fine from a processor and memory standpoint but we are running SAN storage and it chewed up the I/O. We have a ton of machines in our infrastructure though... Local or isolated disk might reduce risk or impact. |
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Howie
Cacti Guru User
Joined: 16 Sep 2004
Posts: 1958
Location: United Kingdom
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:14 pm Post subject: Re: Someone interested? Cacti 0.8.6j in a virtual machine |
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| knebb wrote: | I put it on my server.
But I only have limited traffic, so I will remove it if there will be a lots of downloads.
With bz2 the size decreased to 494MB.
BTW: It's based on CentOS 5.
Comments welcome. |
This is exactly what bittorrent is good for... |
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knebb
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Joined: 19 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:31 pm Post subject: Re: Careful of SAN storage |
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| generic_user wrote: | | SAN storage and it chewed up the I/O. |
You could also try to assign enough memory to the CactiVM so it holds most of your RRAs in cache.
Or use some tunig parameters from the filesystem (i.e. noatime, stride=, perhaps reiserfs) they could help a little bit.
Best practice is not to overload a single LUN with tons of VMs. Seperate them. For the most heavy IO load use RAID1, all others usually are fine with RAID5 (or RAID6).
Greets from Ireland |
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knebb
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Joined: 19 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:37 pm Post subject: Re: Someone interested? Cacti 0.8.6j in a virtual machine |
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| Howie wrote: |
This is exactly what bittorrent is good for... |
You're free to put it on a p2p server- I don't want to share it with my home broadband- 256k uplink is too low.
And on my server there is no P2P running.
But there seems to be not so deep interest in it. Up to now, ~5 downloads....
Last edited by knebb on Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:39 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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polletj
Cacti User
Joined: 30 Aug 2006
Posts: 51
Location: Antwerp/Belgium
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| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:00 am Post subject: How to setup this? |
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Stupid question of course:
How to set this up in VM ware env?
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oxo-oxo
Cacti User
Joined: 30 Aug 2007
Posts: 89
Location: Denmark
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| Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:30 am Post subject: |
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Hi
Thanks for making the cactivm
- I use it to test with.
However, if you do it again, I'm missing svn so I can checkout from cacti repository ... |
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knebb
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Joined: 19 Sep 2006
Posts: 59
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| Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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| oxo-oxo wrote: | Hi
Thanks for making the cactivm |
You're welcome 
| Quote: | | - I use it to test with. |
That's what's it is designed for. I also use is for my production environment.
| Quote: | | However, if you do it again, I'm missing svn so I can checkout from cacti repository ... |
Ehmm.. just use (Not sure if it works, but I think SVN is provided with CentOS5  |
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oxo-oxo
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Joined: 30 Aug 2007
Posts: 89
Location: Denmark
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | | yum install subversion |
- now I know how to install in CentOS 
And VM works with svn checkout revision 4122.
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html=/var/www/html
cd ${html}
rm -fr cacti
svn checkout svn://svn.cacti.net/var/svnroot/cacti/branches/BRANCH_0_8_6/cacti/
mkdir cacti/log
touch cacti/log/cacti.log
chown -R cactiuser cacti
chgrp -R cactiuser cacti
# Standard procedure from here... |
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SoftDux
Joined: 19 Jun 2008
Posts: 28
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:49 am Post subject: |
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| Is this a VM for VMWare, but with CentOS installed? Would it run on both a Windows VMWare server & Linux WMWare Server? |
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