Advanced Setup (Maybe) -- Linux & Win32 Environment

[amccomis]

Maybe this is mentioned somewhere else, but I've been searching and cannot find it.

I have Cacti 0.8.6e installed on a RHEL4 Linux Box. It runs great. I'm able to do all the normal "out of the box" stuff.

Now I want to get fancy. I want to use some of the perl/wmi scripts that are out there to get near-real-time counters/graphs from my IIS boxes (WS2003/IIS6).

Do I need perl installed on my IIS box? Do I need the NSClient (I've seen references to that)?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks


Angelo

[gandalf]

That depends
There are some apps out there, that contain perl scripts for your cacti server. For them, of course, you won't need perl on your target machines.
Some other apps (e.g. those using the "pass" or "exec" option of net-snmp) are calling remote programs. These are implemented in some language available on the target system. Here, you'll find everything from shell to php or perl and the like. It depends on the solution posted.
The above statements pertain to cacti usage with snmp. But there are more options. Some are using ssh/telnet, some nsclient (see nagios), some http (trigger some remote cgi's using http) and more.
Reinhard

[BSOD2600]

Since the perl scripts acually are (typically) doing WMI calls, you shouldn't need anything more installed on the Windows boxes. Just dealing with user rights, woohoo.

[amccomis]

OK... So let me make sure I understand this completely:

Linux Box -- where cacti runs -- has perl (obviously), cacti running just fine.

Windows Box -- IIS6 on it -- has WMI enabled.

All I need to get the counters and make "pretty graphs" on cacti: The perl scripts (which run on cacti server) and access to the IIS box through the network?

I'll have a go at it and see how I do.