Cacti

Thanks for the response Tony. However, I'm still a little confused. Doing an SNMPwalk on the OID you specify doesn't really give me any new info. Maybe to help clarify my question, I want to know what exactly the query_host_cpu.php script does to get the values for CPU usage. As you explain, there's...

I hope someone can help me out on this one: I'm using Cacti to monitor a large number of Red Hat EL3 SMP boxes, and it's running great. One thing I'm monitoring is CPU performance. My question is: which OID does Cacti use for this metric? Looking at the query_host_cpu.php, it says: $oids = array( &q...

Thanks Rolf! I had almost abandoned Cacti om favor of MRTG because I was having so many problems getting Cacti to monitor my Squid install.

I was wondering what the best way to create a template for monitoring Squid would be, if I had all of the OID information? I've found this post which describes creating an XML file to import: http://www.raxnet.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=2802 I understand where to put the OIDs/Name/etc. in the XML fil...