Last Updated Timestamp / Uptime

[Nolan]

First I want to make my plug for Cacti. I have been experimenting with Cacti for about a week or so and have been very impressed and very pleased. I am currently using MRTG and the MRTG extension for NetWare and have been looking for an all-in-one RRDTOOL to transition to. Having worked with MRTG for only a short while and having only scratched the surface with RRDTOOL, I have found Cacti very easy to get up and running and convert to.

Question - In moving from an MRTG-based system, I would like to replicate some of the features and look and feel that we have grown accustomed to. In particular, I am interested in displaying a "Last Updated timestamp" as well as the system uptime on the graph pages. Either on the graphs themselves, or in a header position (similar to MRTG).

The system uptime could be retrieved via SNMP and displayed within the graph fairly easily. Perhaps there is an even easier method to expose this data? As far as the Last Updated timestamp information, I have not really looked under the hood to see how MRTG is exposing and storing this information. Can someone suggest a method to extract and display this information within Cacti?

As a final note, I am currently querying my data purely through MRTG and storing it in an RRD format that Cacti is in turn graphing and displaying. I am not performing any data collection directly through Cacti at this point.

Thanks in advance.

[Matt]

I am trying to do the same....
like this?

[Guest]

hi,

how are you showing the "up time" and the "last updated time"??
i am a really newbie, plaese help me

[raX]

Yeah! Two birds with one stone... Anyhow, I just explained exactly how to duplicate that feature in this thread:

http://www.raxnet.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=819

Enjoy.

-Ian