Tivoli and Cacti

jlbartol · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 1

Hello
I just want to interface Cacti with Tivoli.
Do you know if it is possible ?
Have you some examples - screenshots and scripts ?

Thank a lot

JLuc

TheWitness · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 7:58 am Post subject:

That question is too broad. You must be more specific. Moving to "add ons".

TheWitness

gandalf · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:20 am Post subject:

We're running Tivoli (still lots of DM monitors and some ITM5.1; just starting to move to ITM6.1). There's no direct interface between Tivoli and cacti. We found the Data Warehouse much too complex to really use it. So we implemented a different approach. We tweaked some of our home-grown monitors to return data to the TMR Server and store these data in DB2 tables. Then, we query those tables every 5 min for only some data that is graphed by cacti.
I know, this is very specific and I'd recommend not to copy that approach. We will check ITM6.1 for better graphing ability but do not know how good this will scale. If it turns out to be inefficient, perhaps there'll be an interface. But this will last more than 6 months as to the current project schedule...
Reinhard

spoonman · Cacti User Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 244

I'd be very interested in seeing what can be graphed in cacti from Tivoli??
Very cool./

nsiaj · Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 4

As the subject says I am using cacti to execute perl scripts that do soap calls to the ITM monitoring servers and plotting that data. There are a few work arounds that had to be done, especially with regards to how cacti decides to poll.

When a device is defined it asks for a description and a host name. If the hostname is not pingable, it considers the host down and will not poll it. Since I am not polling the device for data, rather I am polling the monitoring server, and most of the devices are not reachable from the cacti server, I have to put the IP address of the mointoring server in every hostname.

Other work arounds included daemonizing the poller because the time needed to poll all the devices vary. I created a daemon that gets the available managed systems and their status, runs a few batch type queries to speed up plotting, and then runs the poller.

Not sure if this will work but I am attaching the word doc I have started on the whole thing.

spoonman · Cacti User Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 244

I am interested in monitoring more so the actual TSM server and its database ADSM. More like amount of TB backed up, amount of GB on tape ...etc..

Thanks