Hobbit plugin to monitor Cacti

[fmangeant]

Hi

here's a script I'm using with Hobbit Monitor (AKA Big Brother) to monitor Cacti.

It includes monitoring :

• the logfile size
• the logfile age (to ensure the poller is running)
• the # of Cacti processus running
• the # of RRD databases up to date
• ...

Here's a screenshot :



Some variables need to be changed inside the script, for example :

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MAX_LOGFILE_AGE=1000
MAX_CACTI_PROCESSES=50

I hope some of you will find it useful

[ceyounger]

For an information junkie like myself, this works great!

Fired it up and it's reporting Cacti stats.

Nice script!

[ceyounger]

Does this work for BB as well? I took a look through it, and it would seem to work fine, but I wanted to ask. I'd imagine you wouldn't know, seeing as how you've written it to run with Hobbit. I'll probably take a look at it anyway, and see if I can adapt it to run under BB. Nice work either way!

Hmm, I would think it *should* work with BB. But the only thing I know for sure is BB externals work fine with Hobbit--don't know about the other way around.

[fmangeant]

Hi

it should work out of the box, as I'm using BB compatible variables ($BBTMP, $BBDISP, $BB).

You might want to add this at the top of the script if you want to run it by hand for testing :

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BBHOME=/home/bbuser/bb
. $BBHOME/etc/bbdef.sh

The only requirement is the GNU 'date' command.

[hri_]

Can someone tell me how exactly this work ?

[t3cm4n]

he all i'm new here,where im put that script on my cacti install?...im use ubuntu 9.10

[dionvdc]

Nowhere, you have to put it in your Big Brother/ Hobbit install ( and probably edit some lines ) so it can monitor your Cacti server.

[PlayerUp]

great thanks!