Nagios and Cacti

[Max]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Daniel Emmanuel Feinsmith
<daniel at danielemmanuelfeinsmith.com> wrote:
>
> It depends on the intensity of your snmp usage. Cacti has a native
> daemon to do large scale snmp getting, and it does a great job of it.
> So if u have hundreds of devices, each with a lot of interfaces, u
> will probably like cacti. The user interface is also well done for
> graphing snmp data and thresholding on it using the threshold plugin.

With parallel checks in Nagios 3 and some configuration tuning and
well-written SNMP checks, I'd argue that Nagios is as good if not a
better poller than cactid :).   our instance is not huge, but
currently we do 7000+ SNMP-based checks in 3 minutes on a dual
quad-core Linux-based server.

Before PNP I used to use Cacti and Nagios.  I like Cacti, but with PNP
around I would never go back to that combination again .. Nagios + PNP
really does simplify life for Nagios administrators and provides a lot
of flexibility as far as how you scale your graphing as your node base
grows.

- Max

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