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{ Monthly Archives } December 2008

First CactiWMI release! (0.0.3)

Yer yer I know it’s not the first actual release but it’s the first one I am posting up publicly.
CactiWMI is the project I have been working on as a method to monitor Windows servers and applications such as Exchange and SQL from a Linux based Cacti install. To do this it uses a combination [...]

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Monitoring a Speedstream 4200

Due to a recent ADSL fault I began monitoring the stats from my Speedstream 4200 DSL modem. I figured the Cacti graphs might be handy for anyone else out there in a similar situation. Example graphs are below As you can see there was a pretty bad line fault!

Attached below are the templates [...]

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Improved Cacti Traffic Graphs

Traffic graphs in Cacti are alright to begin with but there are a few modifications you can make to both improve the look and usefulness of them.
Something like this…

Now this isn’t my idea, a member of the Cacti forums put up a rough guide to get people going. You can view this here http://forums.cacti.net/about25415.html. However [...]

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WMI Monitoring with Cacti

Monitoring machines with Cacti is easy when using SNMP but when you start adding Windows servers into the mix it can become a little more difficult. SNMP is available for Windows but it’s quite limited without the use of the old and unsupported perf2mib or the costly SNMP Informant (at least in regards to SQL [...]

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