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achrich
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Cacti Platform Question

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Hi,

I`ve been running Cacti for about 5 months now in a DEV enviroment, monitoring Cisco devices on a Suse Linux box.

We are looking to expand that to Windows servers and I`m wondering if it would be of any benefit using Windows as a server rather then Linux.

We`d proably just be monitoring the basics like CPU etc.

If anyone has a opinion on this please let me know...else I`m going to default to Linux as I gather that has basic templates anyway.

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Really no advantage...

To be honest, most of the remote monitoring is not dependant on the server. Unless you decide to use, NSClient or something to monitor windows, then I would stick with Linux/FreeBSD as you server.
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Only advantage to using windows, would be if you need to run WMI scripts against Win32 hosts.
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Post by achrich »

Thanks guys...i`ll stay with Linux.
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