Graphing for Specific Users?

[Outofmymindyo]

Good evening all,

I'm wondering if anyone has used Cacti to graph data for specific users. What I'm trying to do is keep an eye on each user in the system to see which user is doing the most damage as far as CPU usage, Memory usage, and Network usage.

Why? Because I've got a high-load DoD:S server that seems to be running away with the CPU in hand. I want to track whether it's actually that or see if it's another user on the system causing the problem.

If anyone has done this before I'd greatly appreciate it.

(I've tried searching, but everything with the word 'user' comes up since most of us here have the title of 'Cacti User')

[rony]

You are pretty much going to have to write a script that collects the data for you. But by user, you would have to know the list of users to track it by user.

[Outofmymindyo]

Right that's fine. I'm running cPanel and my system admin could most likely write a script, but I'm wondering whether it would need to be scripted in a certain way so that Cacti recognizes it.

Thanks again.

[rony]

Yes, look at the documentation.

I would suggest doing a data query type script for this, as the users aren't always fixed.