Cacti

I just upgraded from the standard cacti package to cacti-cactid with apt-get, and it prompted me select with data collector to use and I choose cactid instead of cmd.php. Is this all I need to do? Looks like cactid has several threads running.

If your still looking for a script to do this I threw this together and use it to monitor my 25 CMTS's I maintain. It takes the ip address of the box as a parameter and then returns the percentage of modems online. Then you just set it up as a datasource and graph it. #!/usr/bin/php -q <?PHP $userna...

Not exactly. A little background might be helpful. I'm a network engineer for a cable company and I've setup a cable modem monitoring template that graphs the RF power levels as well as other things. The problem I'm having is that the Forward power level can be around -30 to +20 dB, the value is imp...

Ok everything is working fine with my graphs, but here's my question. I'm not really fond of how RRDTOOL graphs negatives downwards, I'd like it to graph the same as a positive, but the data i'm graphing may or may not be positive.