Assistance/advice Cacti, Nagios, MacTrack

[JMH]

Hello. New employee walking into a terrible cluster of a setup on a cable plant.

Currently, we have Nagios, where we see the up/down status on the IP, which for a chunk of our system is static IP's. Then we have Cacti to check levels, which again requires manual entries on static IP's.

I want to completely do away with this.

The best way I can think of to solve the issue is a direct link to Incognito, our new DHCP Provisioning. It is already gathering a massive amount of data from the field, though it is a limited number right now. Has anybody linked Cacti to Incognito before? Is there a method to do it? If not, that's fine. Just thinking outside the box I'm stuck in.


Optimally [otherwise], I am wanting to clone our current Cacti server, install the Nagios Plugin, then install the MacTrack plugin. Then shut the old one down when everything has been migrated. Using SNMP queries against the MAC address to do our monitoring.

This still, unfortunately, requires a ton of additional manual entry.

Just purchased the Cacti 0.8 ebook. Maybe some of my questions will be answered, maybe not. If not, I hope that this post gets a bit of attention for what is planned and hoping that someone's pulled it off already.

Thanks!

[phalek]

Hi JMH,

You can automate Cacti by using the CLI interface it has.

That way you can create devices and use the Autom8 plugin to automatically generate graphs for e.g. interfaces and place the devcies on the Cacti tree. This requires some standardization ( e.g. device naming, Interface description ) to be automated, but I do have customers using this.

So you would need a script taking the Incognito data as inpuit, checking for devices still missing and then add them using the CLI interface.

I guess Nagios can be done the same (i.e. create the hosts and have nagios reload the configs )

[JMH]

Hi JMH,

You can automate Cacti by using the CLI interface it has.

That way you can create devices and use the Autom8 plugin to automatically generate graphs for e.g. interfaces and place the devcies on the Cacti tree. This requires some standardization ( e.g. device naming, Interface description ) to be automated, but I do have customers using this.

So you would need a script taking the Incognito data as inpuit, checking for devices still missing and then add them using the CLI interface.

I guess Nagios can be done the same (i.e. create the hosts and have nagios reload the configs )

Apparently we're grabbing the data from the CMTS at this point in time, but Incognito would probably be a better source. After all, if the CMTS is down, Incognito isn't going to show anything, and visa versa.

My little project just got temporarily canned, but I do plan on doing this as time permits.
So can Autom8 run off of MacTrack?

I'll just put it this way. Our setup is so... just... bad, that I would kill to see a properly functioning system on a cable plant with mac track.