Nagios and Cacti

[Christopher McAtackney]

Hi all,

I've been looking into making use of Cacti to act as an SNMP
management tool which runs alongside my Nagios instance.

Ideally, what I would like to do is have Cacti monitor various
SNMP-exposed metrics on my hosts, and then have a service check in
Nagios which parses Cacti's results (which I believe are RRD files)
and send alerts etc.

Nagios itself will still be used for running directly checks for
services running, errors in log files etc.

Does this approach make sense?

One issue that I can think of is the difficulty in keeping the config
files of Nagios and Cacti synchronised.  I was planning on using Lilac
Platform to act as my Nagios config file management tool, but how that
is kept in synch with Cacti is a problem. Has anyone ever set up an
arrangement like this before?

Cheers,
Chris

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