Have not checked out Graphite yet, thanks for the heads up. Looks like it uses time series data, which is interesting. I've poked around OpenTSDB before and found the potential for usefuleness. Just haven't had the time to really dig in with it at all. Will definitely check out Graphite, as I agree that Cacti requires some manual interaction to get new hosts added and components monitored. It's one of it's major drawbacks as it definitely doesn't lend itself to auto-magical configuration when adding new hosts like Nagios/Icinga can. It can be done if you are determined, but it's not out of the box.

Thanks Tim!

Dave

> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:19:30 -0400
> From: turbofx@gmail.com
> To: wlug@mail.wlug.org
> Subject: Re: [Wlug] Monitoring for a network
>
> Cacti is cool once you get ot configured. We've been playong with
> graphite and we've ditched our cacti graphs in favor of it.
>
> Creating a new graph consists of openong a tcp port ane passing ina
> tuple... Tada... New graph.
>
> Then you can go to the web interface and tinker with the graph parameters.
>
> Just my .02.
>
> Tim.
o/wlug