Adding a large number of device

[k-wilkinson]

I would like to monitoring around 1000 devices that are all the same. Is there a easy way to add these devices into cacti and setup associated graphs. I think I can add the hosts directly to the host table in the DB with a script, but I don't think creating the graphs is going to be that simply. Any suggestions?

[TheWitness]

Not yet. It's on our list, but we have not gotten any one to write it for us yet.

TheWitness

[m_o_d]

I have that problem but no 1K only 160-200 devices.

Maby shell script can do that ?

[Guest]

Not yet. It's on our list, but we have not gotten any one to write it for us yet.

TheWitness

A big step forward here would be changing the graph/host drop-down blocks in the tree editor to multi-select boxes. If you could select multiple graphs to add at the same time to a tree node adding devices like switches would be MUCH more effecient.

[Darwin]

Same issue here.. A few hundred hosts to add and having to add them manually would be a bit of a pain..

If one would know all the information that gets added to the SQL database, would it not be possible to figure something out to mass-input a large number of new hosts?

Is this information available somewhere, or would I have to make a dump of the database, add a new host, make a new dump and then compare?

Thanks!

ps. Does cacti, by any chance, have an irc channel somewhere?

[rony]

Well, it's complex....

I'm a developer and I would have to dump and compare... But, also, that is no my focus area.

What I would suggest is looking at writing a php script that you can run from the command line to add graphs. But, take a look at the existing php files so that you may include the correct includes and run the functions that already exist.

Also, major changes to the templating and graphing are happening in the next version of cacti.

[Darwin]

Thanks for the reply Tony.

Any somewhat "tentative" release date/schedule for this next version of cacti? These major changes are making me curious. Maybe I'll try and test it out on some test box. (Had just read your post in announce a bit earlier).

To wait or not to wait before implementing, hohum.

[rony]

TheWitness and I are in a holding pattern, working on other stuff, until Ian finalizes the templates stuff. So, I don't know when the changes are coming, all I know is they are.

At this time, we don't even have a tenative date, and I care not to give one, as this is a labor of love and not a job.

[TheWitness]

So elequently put!

[Darwin]

Hehe. Just thought I'd ask, you never know what might come up.

I'll try and figure something out, hmm...

One thing's for sure, figuring out how cacti works has been interesting, made me understand alot about how rrdtool works also. Cool stuff.