using cacti

Using Cacti

1. Installation

sudo apt-get install cacti

2. config

default login user and password:  admin/admin

after login, change password to admin at your will'

3. Enable server's snmp

3.1 install snmpd in server

apt-get install snmpd

3.2 enable snmpd listening on all interface, instead of 127.0.0.1

vi /etc/default/snmpd

remove '127.0.0.1' from the value

/etc/init.d/snmpd restart

3.3 install snmpwalk

apt-get install snmp

verify snmpd is working

snmpwalk -c public -v1 10.64.44.169

Bingo!  till now, We can use Cacti to monitor another Linux  server with SNMP.v1

Part 2

how to use a customized script to monitor the data index as we want

1, write a script 可以生成标准输出，比如

name1:value1 name2:value2 name3:value3 ...

2. 添加一个data input methods，选择 sciprt/command的方式，一次填入 input 和 output 参数

3. 用刚才新定义的methods来定义一个data source，

4. 接着就可以用这个datasourece 来定义新的Graph了。

5, 等定义好了Graph之后，就可以直接Graph Management，把这个图标应用起来了。