Monitoring of servers is very important in any IT environment. It’s important to know when a device is down before people start calling you or that a hard drive is full before the operating system stops responding. It allows you as a system admin to be proactive about the state of your network. Cacti needs SNMP to be up and running to be able to monitor a server. The following describes the…
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The following are some tips on how to use your Cacti AMI powered by Symetricore on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) marketplace. SSH login user Username: ubuntu No password is used. You should connect to your instance using the public IP address and your public key. ssh -i mykey.pem ubuntu@public-ip Cacti web admin Access to Cacti is via a web browser at http://public-ip Cacti administrator account. username: admin password: aws-instance-id The…
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Monitoring of servers is very important in any IT environment. It’s important to know when a device is down before people start calling you or that a hard drive is full before the operating system stops responding. It allows you as a system admin to be proactive about the state of your network. Cacti needs SNMP to be up and running to be able to monitor properly. The following describes the steps…
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Contents1 Disk space utilization1.1 hrStorageTable (.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3)1.2 dskTable (.1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.9)2 Cacti configuration2.1 How to collect hrStorageTable from a device2.2 Create graphs3 Monitoring disk I/O operations3.1 Download the configuration4 Install the configuration files5 Switch to 64-bit counters5.1 Start monitoring5.2 Interpreting the results Disk space utilization You need to be aware of two MIBs which can be used for monitoring disk space. hrStorageTable (.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3) This comes from HOST-RESOURCES-MIB and is the “standard” way of…
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