Templates Ownership

[caserta80]

Hi All

Ive been deploying cacti for monitoring our windows systems using the cacti windows installer and this has worked great but have a quick question about templates.

We have an external IT company who managed our monitoring previously and they also used cacti for our infrastructure so i asked them if they could export there templates for me to use this i thought would save me time in creating ours.

There response was: The main template we use is “Interface - Traffic (bits/sec, Total Bandwidth)” which is an inbuilt template, the Cisco CPU, Memory and Connections templates we use are bespoke to us so unfortunately I can’t provide these to you.

Is this correct ?? i thought the hole point of freeware was to share and help develop the product ect.

Whats your thoughts on this are they just blocking me as we are no longer going to use them for managing our infrastructure.

Thanks
Simon

[Linegod]

Cacti is not freeware, it is open source.

However, anything someone creates within Cacti is governed by whatever license they want to use, as long as they are not incorporating GPL code to create it. If they modified an existing template, reused the xml files, etc, it would be a derivative work. This clause of the GPL would only apply if they gave them template to anyone else. But if they never give it to anyone, they are free to keep it to themselves.

I would check the template site however, as what you need may already be there: http://docs.cacti.net

[caserta80]

Thanks for the info.