Newbie To Cacti

[fieldofdreams77]

All,

I am standing up Cacti in my lab and have just a few questions to better understand how I can utilize the application in a real world scenario.

Assuming I'm correct, CACTI is running on MYSQL database. Is it possible for me to query the CACTI database with hopes to automate some stats output to lets say a dashboard time application?

Again, thanks for all responses.

I am attempting to search on my own for the answer but the responses left me in limbo.

[phalek]

cacti is only holding the configuration data within the mysql database. All other data like CPU stats, interface counters are stored in RRD files.

So no, you will not be able to query the database for this.

But, you could use DSTATS plugin to get some limited data from the database (as it stores some but by far not all of the data into specific tables ), or go for something like the CereusTransporter plugin, which fills i.e. an InfluxDB with all the data which you can query then again.

That said, as you can see there are multiple possibilities available, but plain Cacti without any plugins will not have any polled device data in the mysql database.