Monitor and graph SQUID Proxy Server using Cacti

sasja · Post by **sasja** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:36 am

Can someone please help me to set this up. I have cacti running and monitoring default stuff. I want to be able to monitor and graph my Squid Proxy Server using cacti. I also want to be able to store and graph history data. I don't want to use Squid Graph. Thanks

Post by **gandalf** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 4:57 pm

There are some Squid Graph Templates in this forum. Please search
Reinhard

sasja · Post by **sasja** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:27 am

Thanks Reinhard. I've seen the templates and scripts. How do I intergrate them into the Cacti drop down menus?

star3am · Post by **star3am** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:19 am

Hey sasja, i see you are from cape town, me too !

I have monitored squid from cacti before, with great success

you need to .. import the templates, etc. into cacti, then extend snmp for squid, like so ..

add to squid.conf (You need to enable snmp for squid, I use gentoo, so I added a USE flag in /etc/make.conf and recompiled squid)

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snmp_port 3401
acl snmppublic snmp_community YOUR_SNMP_COMMUNITY
acl ACL_NAME src IP_ADDRESS

snmp_access allow snmppublic ACL_NAME
snmp_access deny all

hope this helps
ciao/Riaan

sasja · Post by **sasja** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:53 am

Many thanks Riaan. I will try this and let you know.

argon0 · Post by **argon0** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:05 am

Argh...

Reinhard/Gandalf - the web Cache host template you posted does not load the xml queries in to the Cacti server, so does not work....

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