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Amphaeon

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Registered: 2007-01-31

Posts: 72

Nagios + Ntop + Cacti

Hello everyone,

I've finally been able to get into network monitoring. Ive currently got MRTG installed and running nicely on an arch virtual machine at work monitoring all our top level Cisco switchs.

I'm now reading up across the Internet about other products. It seems CACTI is MRTG taken to another level. Im interest in installing it on another VM prior to switching over. But im also wondering if I can install NTOP , to drill down to single hosts producing abnormal bandwidth (using the the ntop plugin with CACTI), and then installing NAGIOS in order to alert me for any down hosts(servers).

Does anyone see an issue arising from installing these three on one machine?

Would zenoss be a better solution in your opinion? ( i have only read a lil about it but not thoroughly. Yet.)

Is there any other solutions you see that would achieve this more efficiently?

Comments Welcome.

Once I am able to start on this project I will post back.

Thanks,
Amphaeon

P.S.
I've searched the Internet, for an implementation tutorial about this to only find a lot of job postings