Cacti As Manager of Managers

[rajivpatil]

Hi

I have integrated Cacti with NagiosXI, able to see Nagios alerts in Cacti Dashboard.
Similarily i have other tools for network monitoring, website monitoring, & i want to use Cacti dashboard as single point of URL which can be used as Manager of Managers.
So going forward can i use Cacti as common dashboard for all tools.
Correalation is possible with Cacti. If anyone has done automation in Cacti then Pls. let me know can i do automation in Cacti.

any help would appericate.

[Netcooler]

So Cacti as a MoM... not too sure here.

I know you can use it s a portal "of sorts" by enabling SuperLinks to hit Web Interfaces of other tools.

You'd have to have soe custom scripting happening in the back end to do any sort of correlations because there is no decision or analytics engine

Really Cacti should be feeding a MoM not being a MoM...

[atamas99]

First and foremost, I understand that this is a Cacti forum. I happened to stumble upon this post while searching for a plug-in for Cacti and this sparked my interest.

I am also looking for a MoM solution and that's why this post sparked my interest. I'd be curious if this post takes off and if it will have any additional feedback. I'd like to know, if people want to respond in a Cacti forum, of course, if there are any other open source solutions with which individuals have had tremendous success with. If so, I'd be interested as to what monitoring tools they were able to successfully integrate with such tool.

Much appreciated!

[niobe]

I believe Cacti can make an excellent MoM. I have had this goal as a long-running but low priority project for some time.

My main goal is to have a single authoritative database for devices, their locations and so on, and cacti provides much of the framework for this. I use the plugin architecture - I have modified it to allow a third type of page (currently only graph or console) and to allow per-user plugin settings, currently only per-user graph settings (I believe the NMID plugin may have done a similar thing, so it's more of an extension). Then you need a consistent way of interacting with other systems, but you more or less need to write scripts for each system you want to integrate. One example is I have a wireless monitoring system which discovers APs via a vendor-specific protocol. Cacti cannot find them since they don't respond to snmp. So I write a script on the cacti server to pull that information back, then another import script to cross-check with the cacti db and add or report on missing devices.

The other poster is right, a lot of it will be backend scripts, not really part of cacti. But leveraging cacti's PA can make it a lot easier.