Also be aware that running cacti on a Windows platform is very process
intensive. This is based on my experience from 6-8 years ago. I found
that a puny, out-dated Linux box could perform cacti processing about
3-4 times faster than a beefy Windows box. No contest.
Part of this is because most of the tools and libraries that make up
cacti are not native on Windows (they are native on Linux). There were
additional issues as well. None-the-less, at about 200 monitored
devices, I found a middling-level Windows box was not able to run SNMP
queries fast enough to finish in 5 minutes (and hence ran out of time to
do a full system scan). My really-old, slow 386-based Linux box could
process that whole bunch of devices in about 2 minutes. When I got a
"real" box (meaning just a decent x86 platform, but not expensive), that
processing time went down to something like 20 seconds.
Today, the number of devices has grown substantially, and the cacti
engine is running in a CentOS VM. It's still finishing the full SNMP
scan in about 1/2 a minute.
Windows will get you going with cacti. Linux (or any *nix platform) will
get you home.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 10/24/2016 3:17 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm wrote:
cactiez will get you into cacti quick to test with it, if youre like
me and not a linux guy this is the quickest avenue to get there, its
not windows based but its web based so you can access it from windows,
just set up a vm, even if its a local instance of vmplayer or
virtualbox, just remember when the vm is running through a poll cycle
its going to toast your machine if its not beefy
you can downloads snmpc from castlerock demo to see some really cool
and easy things youll be priced out of, but you can get quick
visualization of stuff you can do without a learning curve.
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 5:06 PM, SmarterBroadband
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
+1
*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Sean Heskett
*Sent:* Monday, October 24, 2016 2:06 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] SNMP Monitoring on a Windows box?
CACTI
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Sam Lambie <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I am just getting myself acquainted with SNMP monitoring and do
not yet have a Linux box or VM to use. Is there a decent SNMP tool
that operates on Windows? Preferably Free?
thanks
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