I've installed succesfully Cacti -v 0.8.7g on a Debian 64 bits distro.
As from the installation process, I get 4 graphs (memory usage, logged-in users, ...).

My question is quiet simple: What protocol lies these 4 graph on io to gather the data? Does it use net-snmp?
My intiution tells me that it not uses snmp. But is it this reflexion pertinent, what protocol than;

I've read and understood that on the server side you don't have to install snmp, snmpd will do. (on the agents snmp is required and only it. Basicaly remote stations need snmp, right?? The server whom cacti's running on needs snmpd )
why do I present this questions?
Following the installation of the packet mibs-downloader-snmp, I ran a /etc/init.d/snmp restart resolving in status snmpd not running (same status after a reboot).

Thanks for your accurate know-how.
Dorian