Cacti intigrate with nagios

[Satish Patel]

I will try this solution.. but one more problem is i have installed  
cacinda and when i open it on URL then i only can see host list and i  
select host it showing mesg "No device class match for host"  ( no  
graph there)

can you help me on this for to resolve cacinda problem...


Regards,

Satish Patel


Quoting Max <perldork at webwizarddesign.com>:

> Hi Satish,
>
> I wrote Cacinda, it is good for integrating the displays of the two,
> but does nothing to help with host and user management.  Sorry.
>
> Cacti uses RRD, so does PNP, so I would think you could use RRD files
> from Cacti with PNP; haven't tried, but I don't see why that wouldn't
> work.
>
> You could set up PNP, copy the files from Cacti into PNP directories
> and play with making a few templates and if that works then just use
> PNP to view the historical files from Cacti in one location and use a
> separate instance for new data.
>
> =- Max
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Satish Patel <satish at linuxbug.org> wrote:
>> Thanks!
>>
>> but reason is i am using cacti since last 4 years and there is lots of
>> historical data which i dont want to lost thats why i want to integrate
>> existing cacti with nagios. that why i am looking plugin which help me to do
>> this i have read about cacinda but there is not more document on net so its
>> difficult to work on this if you guy already using this solution so please
>> suggest me i will be happier...
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Satish Patel
>>
>>
>> Quoting Max <perldork at webwizarddesign.com>:
>>
>>> Many of us have used Cacti and Nagios together (I did for several
>>> years) :), some probably still do.  better to go with a Nagios-centric
>>> graphing add-on like PNP (there are others available as well!) and not
>>> use Cacti at all .. trust me, you will be a happier person for not
>>> using both at the same time.
>>>
>>> You can write scripts that auto-add hosts to Nagios based on the Cacti
>>> database or vice-versa but it gets ugly pretty quickly.
>>>
>>> I personally replaced Cacti with PNP and am very content with the
>>> combination; MUCH less administration time than Cacti + Nagios and PNP
>>> makes adding new templates much easier than Cacti does for people who
>>> are comfortable with RRD syntax.
>>>
>>> - Max
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Satish Patel <satish at linuxbug.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have nagios running and now i want to intergate my cacti with nagios
>>>> so i have only one frontend. anybody has done before this solution?
>>>> please let me know.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Satish Patel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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