Cacti Versus CactiEZ

[BacTeria]

Hello guys ,

I am planning to use Cacti for monitoring and I have two options which are Cacti and Cactiez

which one is recommended and why ? not only on installing but with plug and play features ..

[micke2k]

CactiEZ is still a great product but its getting a bit old.

Personally i would go with CactiEZ until 1.0 is released which will contain alot of features in EZ by default.

[BacTeria]

Thanks

[dpsguard]

Sorry to have touched this old thread.

I have just installed CatiEZ. Indeed it is old as developer probably does not get much time these days to further refine it, because of his busy work schedule. For someone with very limited Linux experience, this is good all in one package with following refinements to make it better.

I had to uninstall included plugin of mactrack and then replace it with 2.9 (don't forget to enable this new plugin under user management to get the mactrack tab etc.)

http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?f ... ez#p262197

Then I found that Nagios does not work. So I removed Nagios and associated included clients packages (rpm -qa | grep Nagios, rpm remove nagiosxxx.rpm ) and then followed this:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/ ... n-centos-6

This made Nagios work.

Then I installed Adagios for a better front end, following this:

https://github.com/opinkerfi/adagios/wiki/Install-guide

I also updated the Centos to 6.7 and added firefox (as this is a single box that will be remote available to me to help a remote site, so wanted to make it run more than CactiEZ. On my home computer, I installed X2Go client and so that I can have direct access to machine to use browser to manage some local devices that requires https to access.

Overall looks good now, other than I found that Nagios / Adagios does not have auto discovery. Luckily there is Thold included plugin that does allow this in CactiEZ. But not sure how to stop alerts coming in from downstream devices like printers / servers / WAPs if switch itself goes down.

Also CactiEZ includes RRD Tool 1.3. I tried to add newer version 1.47, but I was getting some errors that I did not note down to list here, 1.3 version works for my needs, I am sure there are some improvements in 1.47, but I could not figure out.

Hopefully these constructive comments are read by Jimmy, the developer / integrator of CactiEZ and he can use some of these fixes for a quick update to new interim version of CactiEZ. I spent probably 6 hours in researching and figuring out all this, with my very basic Linux experience. To support some tiny businesses and not for profit organizations, this is great product, Thanks Cacti and CctiEZ developers for great work done. Hopefully others will also pitch in and share their fixes / improvements to help Jimmy in coming up with a better build this time.