Who uses cacti in large organizations

johnyrotton · Post by **johnyrotton** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:07 pm

Hi All this is my first post. I just started using cacti on our enterprise network. My boss is asking if I know of any larger places using cacti to monitor there networks. Can anyone give me some references. BTW, I think cacti I'm blown away at how good this works! Thanks everyone!

Post by **rony** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:14 pm

I can't give names, but there are more than a few fortune 500 and fortune 1000 companies that use Cacti.

As I can not disclose who they are, I will tell you they are big.

streaker69 · Post by **streaker69** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:42 pm

I can attest to at least 1 quasi-government agency using it.

Jesper · Post by **Jesper** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:52 am

Greetings,

We (http://www.akzonobel.com/com/Our+compan ... onobel.htm - Global Fortune 500 company) is using it to monitor a mix of Cisco WAN routers and HP Proliant servers. Close to 600 devices with 5350 data sources, which are spread all over the world, are polled from 1 Cacti installation.

/Jesper

Howie · Post by **Howie** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:18 am

I know of (but not able to mention of course), at least 2 tier-1 ISPs, a handful of Fortune 500 companies (including auto, oil, medical, publishing), large universities, and government departments (in several national and state governments) that use Weathermap with Cacti.

Sadly, large organisations with lots of money don't get that way by giving away any of their money

johnyrotton · Post by **johnyrotton** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:53 am

Thanks, We are a not for profit and $$ is tight, so cacti looks like it might be a good alternitive.

cactiuser2 · Post by **cactiuser2** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:46 pm

I work for a business unit (about 1500 employees) that's part of a large phrama company (about 60,000) employees. We use it along with Nagios for monitoring and trending of machines in several locations in US and Europe so we can create reports for our service level agreements.

doodoobrown · Post by **doodoobrown** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:48 pm

Jesper wrote:Greetings,

We (http://www.akzonobel.com/com/Our+compan ... onobel.htm - Global Fortune 500 company) is using it to monitor a mix of Cisco WAN routers and HP Proliant servers. Close to 600 devices with 5350 data sources, which are spread all over the world, are polled from 1 Cacti installation.

/Jesper

Jesper,
Do you have any issues polling that many devices and how does that affect the performance of the box you have it running on? Currently we are running ~150 Cisco Devices and ~3000 HP enclosure switches world wide. we're only graphing ~80 of the cisco devices but plan on incorporating the rest. Is there a maximum amount of devices that cacti can poll before it craps out? If so is there a way a way to have multiple cacti servers in an environment collecting data but access all graphs from one central location?

Thanks in advanced.

ABX · Post by **ABX** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:50 am

200+ Hosts and 6000+ Data sources and growing.

fmangeant · Post by **fmangeant** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:14 am

See my signature

Post by **TheWitness** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:37 am

My new Cactid, is designed to poll up to 10k hosts per minute (latency aside). RRDtool 1.3 will reduce Disk I/O by 80%. Otherwise there is the Boost plugin to get around the Disk I/O issue.

I have already deployed sites with over 3.5k hosts and they take less than 40 seconds to poll with out boost.

TheWitness

ABX · Post by **ABX** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:14 am

TheWitness wrote:My new Cactid, is designed to poll up to 10k hosts per minute (latency aside). RRDtool 1.3 will reduce Disk I/O by 80%. Otherwise there is the Boost plugin to get around the Disk I/O issue.

I have already deployed sites with over 3.5k hosts and they take less than 40 seconds to poll with out boost.

TheWitness

How much RAM do you need in this machine?

Post by **TheWitness** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:40 am

16-32GBytes. It will be less with RRDtool 1.3. I also place MySQL on another server. That is important. Just finished a 5700 host deployment.

TheWitness

fusion · Post by **fusion** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:05 pm

I currently use it to monitor 80+ routers configured for CBWFQ via MPLS. We monitor several thousand data points...

kernelphr34k · Post by **kernelphr34k** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:49 pm

I'm about to implement cacti into a larger scale environment. Cant say who, but they are prolly in your house.

Hopefully I don't have to bother yall much getting it implemented. I'll read all I can!

Take care,

kp

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