Cacti

Thank you , I was looking at that when I saw your post.

I am curious if there is a way to have graphs be created automatically on a new host. The reason I state this is because I have used all the included API's and have 10k devices automatically imported , the hosts added and a rather complex tree created with no problem. The hosts are very generic in t...

Howie wrote:The main downside is that you take on the burden of tracking any Cacti database schema changes as the software evolves.

Yup and that sucks, but people were asking for it faster and faster .

I understand what you're point was. I believe each language can have it's strong point and weak points. I went ahead and did it in PHP and wrapped everything into one nice little file.

Ok, Well I have everything working but the creation of the graphs.

I have gone through all the cli php files and began testing ideas on how to automate my entry. The only part I'm struggling with is how to handle a device that is removed from a client site, but then two months later put in at another site with the same IP. I am not for sure yet if just renaming the...

You are correct , it's not the search that is broken, but it was me who was broken I for some reason thought I searched these forums but I did not I do appologize, and I spend most of the night reading through parts of cacti and I think I'm going to lay in the framework using Python. I also believe ...

I figured that much, well I will definately take this into consideration then and begin reading on plugin development.

I have not found any documentation or a post relating to this. What we are looking at trying with Cacti is to utilize an existing database of devices on our network(currently 5,700+) I already know the IP of ever device and the OID that will be used, but what I'm wanting to figure out is how I can a...