CACTI FAQs and answers

CACTIIt is a software that monitors network traffic. It is very useful. You can find the basic knowledge you want to know in this article!

1. What is CACTI? What is its use?

Cacti is a PHP program that uses snmpget to collect data and rrdtool to plot data. Cacti can be used to count network devices

You can also customize monitoring metrics for traffic, CPU, system load, and other parameters.

2. Where is the official cacti website?

Http://www.cacti.net

3. Where can I download it?

Http://www.cacti.net/download_cacti.php

4. How can I install it?

Official installation documents: http://www.cacti.net/documentation.php

I wrote installation documentation: http://bbs.chinaunix.net/viewthread.php? Tid = 594019

　5. What does cacti need?

Must have certain knowledge of using net-snmp and rrdtool.

If you want to customize monitoring metrics, you also need some shell script or xml language capabilities. If you want to help cacti development

You need to be familiar with php scripts.

6. Why can't I find the snmpwalk and snmpget commands?

Install a new net-snmp package or create a net-snmp-utils package.

Through the above six questions and answers, you have learned more about CACTI. I hope you can continue to learn about CACTI!

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