[HOWTO] Monitoring Remote Hosts With Cacti and SSH

mvip · Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 4

Just want to let you guys know that I wrote a guide on how to use Cacti to remotely monitor hosts. The guide uses SSH tunnels to tunnel the data from Net-SNMP to the local Cacti host.

The guide is available at:
http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/06/monitoring-remote-hosts-with-cacti/

Hope this guide will come handy for more people than me.

Linegod · Developer Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 517 Location: Canada

Very well done article.

mvip · Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 4

Thanks Linegod.

Putting this solution together took me some time, so I hope it will save other peoples some time.

Linegod · Developer Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 517 Location: Canada

It's exactly how we are monitoring remote networks, so it's obviously a good idea

rony · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject:

I added a clarifying comment to your original Cacti blog entry..

TheWitness · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:25 pm Post subject:

Neet little article. SSH Tunnels rule. Try doing that in Windoz.

Regards,

Jadded (aka TheWitness)