Cacti Network Monitoring Plugins

Part of the default cacti installation in ubuntu version 12 and above.

Cacti network monitoring plugins.

Unless otherwise stated here these plugins are more than likely only compatible with cacti 0 8 8 and before. Cacti 1 x was released in january 2017. Supports monitoring devices by criticality. Any plugin having a date in the table below prior to that date is likely not compatible.

It is used by it businesses and stores all of the necessary information about bandwidth hard disk usage cpu usage load average ram statistics etc in a mysql database. Cacti is an open source web based network monitoring and graphing tool designed as a front end application for the open source industry standard data logging tool rrdtool. User management manage users locally or via ldap assign granular levels of authorization by user or groups of users. Cacti plugin architecture extends cacti functionality.

Monitor plugin for cacti php 24 24 type. All data you want to see must already be present on any existing graphs. This plugin aggregates graphs from graph management. Monitoring can be enabled or disabled at the device level.

Cacti began life as a graphical logging tool that was designed to monitor and collect data about network devices and was built upon the foundations of rrdtool. The version 0 7x versions do not provide the ability to create aggregate templates while the 1 x version of the plugin do allow for this method of creating the aggregates. Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of rrdtool s data storage and graphing functionality. Many many plugins are available.

As the years passed cacti developed better features and a decent user interface and it managed to remain as an open source monitoring project that continues to actively develop new. There are two main version families of this plugin. Php gpl 2 0 1 3 11 0 updated oct 3 2020. To install the monitor plugin simply copy the plugin monitor directory to cacti s plugins directory and rename it to simply monitor.

Plugin npc nagios plugin for cacti is a complete ui replacement for nagios fully integrated into cacti. Cacti provides a fast poller advanced graph templating multiple data acquisition methods and user management features out of the box. Monitor v1 2 1 tgz purpose this plugin allows you to view at a glance all your cacti hosts and will alert you audibly when something is down.