How To...

[sdesse]

Hi, Great Job !

How To :

Without SNMP :
How to run statistics on a remote windows (NT/2000) host ?
-> using scripts like the ones provided in additionnal scripts section (remote call ?)
How to run statistics on a remote Linux host ?

How to make graphs like "very nice graph" in screenshoot section ?

Could you put additionnal scipts on the website ?

Sebastien

[gilson]

Without SNMP :
How to run statistics on a remote windows (NT/2000) host ?

If your setup is:
Cacti on Linux/*unix
AND
target host is Windows NT/2K/XP
the solution is NSCLIENT/CHECK_NT: http://nsclient.ready2run.nl/
You start the nsclient service on windows machine and runs check_nt on Linux to gather CPU load (single or multi-processors machines), Memory load, Disk space, Service state, Process state, System uptime and ANY "Performance Counter" from that machine. The same Performance Counters that is used by Windows's "Performance Monitor" (perfmon.exe).

It doesn't depend on SNMP. It's a client/server tool.
It comes with source code. So, maybe the check_nt client could be compiled on Win platform (???).

It's primarily intended to be used as plug-in for NAGIOS.ORG NMS (formerly netsaint.org).

It's a great tool.

-Gilson

[Jazzee]

Does anyone have any documentation on how to implement Cacti so that it interfaces with Nagios(NetSaint)?

I would be very interested in the configuration as I have a large Nagios installation and would like to utilize the performance data. I have found Nagios to be a very good product and believe that Cacti can add major benefits as well.

Jazz