+ Cacti is an incredible tool –props to the authors – I’m impressed. The learning curve is a bit steep due to the fact that there really aren’t any “wizards†per say – but that’s fine with me. Nothing worth learning was ever easy.
+ Cacti has an awesome community behind it – not surprising because every OSS tool worth its salt does. I will say the forums are a bit intimidating though – after searching it can seem difficult to decide which direction to go / where to dig. And I mean dig, because many of the threads are many pages long with many re-posts of the template or script. Once again – no big deal – this is typical of an open community.
== Approach to WMI Monitoring from Cacti Linux Install - OK? ==
#1 – Install NSClient++ on windoz
#2 – Setup a Data Input Method that calls a perl script
#3 – Perl Script calls check_nt with a WMI Counter & hostname specified
FOR EXAMPLE:
A – Data Input Method “WMI CPU†calls wmi_cpu.pl
B – wmi_cpu.pl calls check_nt with counter “\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time"
C - Returns value
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#4 – Create Data Source, Data Templates, etc needed to collect and graph WMI data
Feel free to say this is stupid or there's a better way, thats why i'm posting!
Thanks! Bart