On 8/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bill Reid</b> <<a href="mailto:billreid@shaw.ca">billreid@shaw.ca</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
In the process I discovered cacti a replacement for MRTG. If you have struggled<br>with setting up graphs with MRTG you will love this package. You configure<br>everything via a web interface.<br></blockquote></div><br>It's an amazing package, we use it at Ceridian too. You can share graph templates via XML, there's a wealth of stuff that can be monitored that's up on the Cacti forums, or if you're willing to dig around, make it yourself.
<br><br>On the topic of MRTG/RRDTool, if anyone's interested in monitoring web application performance with RRDTool I wrote a tutorial on the subject a few months ago: <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/dw-esdd-webperfrrd-i.html">
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/dw-esdd-webperfrrd-i.html</a> The idea is to be able to graph various components of web site performance to determine what's to blame (DB, DNS, Internet, etc).<br clear="all"><br>Sean
<br><br>-- <br>Sean Walberg <<a href="mailto:sean@ertw.com">sean@ertw.com</a>> <a href="http://ertw.com/">http://ertw.com/</a>