Newbie Question [solved]

[shahin321]

Hi,

I did setup cacti on a Centos box, now We want to monitor the network activity of some of our windows machines.
my questions:

1. we have an huper-v server, can we use cacti to monitor the network traffice of the virtual servers on this hyper-v machine? I did add the hyper-v physical server itself to the cacti and I can see it in the console and says up. I did add one of the virtual machines and it says staus unknown.

2. Which templete should we use to get network activity of servers (virtual and non virtual)

Thanks

[gandalf]

As long as an snmpwalk returns valid data, Cacti default traffic template will work
R.

[shahin321]

Hi,

Thanks for your replay,

If I undrestood you correclty, then we can use the cacti to monitor the network traffic of a Hyper-v or VMware virtual machines is this correct?
my problem with unknown status has been solve, the problematic server has 2 IP address, for on NIC so I did remove the one that we dont need and now its working.

Shahin

[gandalf]

Hi,

Thanks for your replay,

If I undrestood you correclty, then we can use the cacti to monitor the network traffic of a Hyper-v or VMware virtual machines is this correct?
my problem with unknown status has been solve, the problematic server has 2 IP address, for on NIC so I did remove the one that we dont need and now its working.

Shahin

Not exactly.
We rely on what SNMP tells us.
And that in turn relies on the way SNMP has been implemented by that target host.
Honestly, I don't know Hyper-V - so I can't tell whether this one reports those interfaces you are interested in. But an SNMPwalk will show you whether those interfaces are reported or not.
R.

[shahin321]

Thanks again,

in my test enviorment I did setup hyper-v and then install an server 2008 R2 as an guest OS, I did install the SNMP on bouth phsical host and the guet OS, after that I did add the both physical server and virtual server to the Cacti, and I can see them both UP, after I did create a graph with the legecy snmp template, then I could see the phsycal NIC of the server and the virtual NIC (with its IP address) so I did create the graph and I copy some files to and from the virtual server and I can see the graph for it.

so I think as long as I can see the virtual NIC that would mean that the cacti will work for Hyper-v.(or I hoop so
Thank