Remote agent for cacti?

[eyechart]

I stumbled across a couple of rrdtool based tools (similar to cacti) that use client side agents to send data to the backend server.

The setup looks interesting, and theoretically could help us get around some problems that we face in a managing a heterogeneous environment. For example, currently it is difficult (for me atleast) to graph WMI or perfmon data from a win2k box when I run cacti on a linux machine. If I could use a perl based agent that could natively talk to WMI on my win2k box, my life would be much easier. There might be security improvements as well, since I wouldn't have to RSH to other Unix hosts to run certain scripts.

Anyway, I thought it might be interesting for you programmer types to check these out and see if anything could be retrofitted into cacti. LRRD looks really interesting because it is based on perl. This might be the most extensible, because of all the libraries available and the fact that perl runs on every major OS.

LRRD - http://www.linpro.no/projects/lrrd/
HostGrapher - http://software.foxlink.org/hostgrapher/
Remstats - http://remstats.sourceforge.net/release/index.html

What are your thoughts?

-ec