Netdisco & Cacti

ahamino · Post by **ahamino** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 1:14 pm

Hey all, is there a way to intergrate Netdisco In Cacti!

I mean a cacti graph appear for every port in netdisco or the data of netdisco appear with every port on cacti

kenth · Post by **kenth** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:11 am

ahamino wrote:Hey all, is there a way to intergrate Netdisco In Cacti!

I mean a cacti graph appear for every port in netdisco or the data of netdisco appear with every port on cacti

If you get this working I'd be very interested in it. We currently run both here.

NetDisco only uses Postgres as it's DB backend, and Cacti is MySQL so I'm going to say it would take a serious amount of work.

emerillat · Post by **emerillat** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:27 pm

Have you looked at Mactrack yet? It does essentially what Netdisco does and is already here and working.

Post by **rony** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:05 pm

Netdisco???? Why does that make me feel like dancing!

Ok, ok, sorry, had to post that.

kenth · Post by **kenth** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:26 pm

emerillat wrote:Have you looked at Mactrack yet? It does essentially what Netdisco does and is already here and working.

It does but only for devices already in Cacti, correct? We have over 900 routers/switches/firewalls, and we only have about 300 in Cacti. Netdisco does it for any CDP enabled device, builds the database automatically and draws a fairly usable graph of your network in addition to having all the end device info available. We find it incredibly useful.

Post by **TheWitness** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:11 pm

Kenth,

Being the author or MacTrack, I had to make certain decisions due to my personal goals. In my environment, I had over 2000 switches, routers and hubs, of which 50% did not support CDP. Therefore, there was not much value in adding that functionality.

What I did focus on instead, was the ability to easily maintain a database of port to IP associations with as much port level detail is permissable.

The devices in MacTrack are separate from Cacti's. I did this more to maintain cacti's original database than anything else. So, there is no cross polination, which some may see as a detractor.

However, you could quite easily export you data from your existing database and import into Cacti's MacTrack. That I do support.

Time permitted, I may add fancy graphing and CDP Autodiscovery, but that is not a priority today.

Regards,

TheWitness

emerillat · Post by **emerillat** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:03 am

[quote="kenthIt does but only for devices already in Cacti, correct? We have over 900 routers/switches/firewalls, and we only have about 300 in Cacti. Netdisco does it for any CDP enabled device, builds the database automatically and draws a fairly usable graph of your network in addition to having all the end device info available. We find it incredibly useful.[/quote]

No Mactrack plugs in to Cacti but devices are actually configured seperately. Just because a device is in Cacti doesn't mean it is in Mactrack. You have to re-add or as TheWitness said export them from the cacti tables to the mactrack tables.

Post by **TheWitness** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:25 pm

Actually, export from Netdisco and import into MacTrack. You can import into MacTrack using a CSV file.

TheWitness

kenth · Post by **kenth** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:58 am

TheWitness wrote:Kenth,

The devices in MacTrack are separate from Cacti's. I did this more to maintain cacti's original database than anything else. So, there is no cross polination, which some may see as a detractor.

However, you could quite easily export you data from your existing database and import into Cacti's MacTrack. That I do support.

Time permitted, I may add fancy graphing and CDP Autodiscovery, but that is not a priority today.

Regards,

TheWitness

Good to know. If you add the CDP Autodiscovery I'd be interested. I just found out I'm going to be adding our other US data centers to Cacti & NetDisco so I'll be at well over 10,000 switches/routers/etc when it's all said and done. Without CDP Autodiscovery I'd be adding things for days.

Anyone ever built a distributed Cacti system? I'm thinking of putting one in each datacenter but I'd like to tie them together in such a way you can look at the info from each in each datacenter. Single Database would most likely work, but I'd like each data center to have it's own....

ashisheth · Post by **ashisheth** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:11 am

TheWitness wrote:Actually, export from Netdisco and import into MacTrack. You can import into MacTrack using a CSV file.

TheWitness

Is there any place that has the CSV format required? I have about 1,000 devices i'd like to export/import from NetDisco as well...

Post by **TheWitness** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:30 am

If you attempt to import any CSV format, I think the error message provides the syntax. I have to make that better obviously.

TheWitness

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