Cacti

Before you add GUI part let me ask you how are you going to resolve the problem of updating RRD file. Remote polling is quite easy part and you hose the best approach. Take in mind however that after running scripts and SNMP commands cmd.php updates RRD files. These files are placed on your cacti s...

Are you sure you need a full fledged Cacti installation on each ? I'd say the solution to your problem could be more to distribute the *poller* component of Cacti, and use a centralized database (with maybe several front-ends servers for load sharing purpose). That way the only feature missing is ju...

I need to say that I really agree on the fact that Cacti is a Graphing tool, a pretty good one that should probably give inspiration to other NMS projects in terms of GUI and structure, but not mutate to a full fledged NMS. I think both components are to be tied together, but responsabilities and fo...