I am very new to all this, cacti, however, seems like exactly what i need, but I am having problems. I might just be feeling a little overwhelmed or something.
I setup an Ubuntu LAMP server and simply ran the apt-get install cacti and all seemed well. It grabbed all the dependencies and such. I think everything installed correctly, but i wonder? I can browse to my cacti page and login and all that jazz. I even imported a PIX template, but I can't seem to get anything to work?
For example. The default Localhost device does not graph. Any device i add I get snmp error and no graphing. So I am so confused for what to do. I am way excited to get this rolling though, it seems like an incredible tool!
I have no experience with snmp either, so I am not so sure what to add in the values or how to verify that my routers/firewalls are setup correctly for such.
I want to monitor all my cisco routers and pix firewalls as well as my windows servers (all are dell poweredge hardware). I think that this is all dooable from what i have read so far, let me know if im wrong. I appreciate any help, i just don't know what to do at this point. I am also a first time at the whole linux thing, but ubuntu seemed to be really seemless and wroked perfectly, very impressed. Let me know if you need more information from me, thanks a million.
