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ConfigManager - Automatic version control and diff viewer for your switches and routers
Cycle - Plugin that Cycles through your graphs. Great for Datacenter wall type display of key graphs
Devices - Allows non-console users to view Device status. Handy plugin too keep from having too many administrators.
Flowviewer - A simple Viewer for your Netflow flows
Gexport - A Graph Export plugin replaces legacy reporting in Cact
GPSMaps - Locate your Devices on Google Maps
HMIB - Organize Devices that support the Host Resources MIB by OS, etc.
Host Info - Collects information about hosts on your network
Intropage - A Cacti Dashboarding Page turning the old Console main screen into something dazling
Memorize - Cool plugin that caches PNG images from RRDtool in physical memory reducing I/O. Does not work on Windows.
MacTrack - Do you want to know where that PC with the virus is? Well MacTrack does that for you. It collects Mac to IP information from your switches and routers on a schedule and allows you to find things like stolen PC's and virus infected devices quickly.
Manage - Service availability monitor for Cacti
Maint - Setup Maintenance Schedules to Quiet Alerts and Thresholds
MikroTik - Plugin specifically designed for monitoring and managing MikroTik Routers and Switches
Monitor - Dashboard viewer for your systems. Provides audible alerting when systems go down and much more.
NMID - Integrates Smokeping and Cacti and Some other Nice things.
NPC - Nagios Plugin for Cacti.
NTop - A nice plugin that redirects you to your NTop server.
OSSEC - Plugin for the OSSEC Intrusion Detection System
Passwd - Nice change password utility for Cacti
Pollperf - If you are wondering "which" data sources cause you poller delays, this is the plugin for you. When you put you Cacti poller in DEBUG mode, it will let you know who's the bad guy.
PHPweathermap - A great plugin for displaying not only your WAN topology, but viewing what's going on right now. This is a must for all NOC's.
QuickTree - Quickly place Graphs onto a new or existing Tree
ReportIt - Great report for collecting information about switches and routers and providing summary information to users
SQL Queries - Allows you to query SQL databases to store information in graphs.
SNMPTT - Stores and allows viewing of SNMP Traps
Status - Shows the status of all hosts and provide a non-console view of problem hosts.
Subnet Calculator - Nice tool for calculating subnet masks, broadcast addresses, etc.
Syslog - Poor mans event system. Combined with syslog-ng, it's a consolidated syslog viewer.
TechAnnoyer - Linux/UNIX only plugin for informing users of device status changes
Thold - A very popular tool to inform administrators when systems may be in trouble.
Tools - A set of network tools that help you in your day to day activities.
TopTalkers - A TopX Plugin for Cacti
Transporter - A near term trending device for Cacti that adds alternate flash graph capabilities to Cacti
Update - Tells you when key (Jimmy uses them) plugins have updates. Good in order to keep you up-to-date when you don't have time to scan the forums.
Uptime - Informs you when as system or snmp agent has been restarted
WebSeer - Performs URI Service Checks on Web Sites
WMI - Query a Windows Host or other CMI Hosts Device for Graphing
ZOND - Allows you to selectively view certain graphs types in real time
Last edited by TheWitness on Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:32 pm, edited 30 times in total.
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