Tag: cactiez
Configuration Example, Management
Upgrade Cacti 0.8.x
A lot of people use the CactiEZ virtual appliance to install a running Cacti environment. The latest CactiEZ virtual appliance (CactiEZ v0.6) uses Cacti v0.8.7c with Plugin Architecture 2.2. Of course a lot of people are developing Cacti and the latest stable version is Cacti v0.8.7g with Plugin Architecture 2.8. I always have trouble with … Read More
Step-by-step guide: SwitchMap under CactiEZ
Switchmap is a Perl program that creates HTML pages that show information about a set of Cisco Ethernet switches. It uses SNMP to gather data from the switches. Normally I install Switchmap in conjunction with CactiEZ and every time I am struggling to get Switchmap to work perfectly. During another installation I wrote this step-by-step … Read More
Configuration Example, Management
IPplan – IP address management
A lot of customers have different methods for their IP address management. Most of them use some kind of static documentation, like an Excel sheet. In the past I implemented IPplan multiple times. I like this tool, because it dynamically scans multiple IP subnets, using ICMP and/or Nmap. Another advantage of IPplan is its ability … Read More
Cacti, easy going
A decent management server is very important in a network, at least that is my opinion. The most important aspect of a management server is its user friendliness. Our customers are most of the time busy with their own problems and the problems of end users, which include all kind of (silly) problems. So the … Read More