If you really want cacti to be useful you need to make sure that all of the snmp clients are setup with complete read access to all oids and you need to know that they contain. Then you can make some pretty usefull graphs.

Its helpful to have two different methods to feed info into cacti so you know your graphs are correct.

Yeah i installed cacti-spine as told from your tuto/blog. I realise that if I want to get a host’s graphes (server/switch/router, etc) I need to do it by hand for each host whereas I have already some configurations from my nagios’s configuration file. :=) So I’m wondering how i can intergrate a small icon as showing in the first link (“hack cactiplugin”)so that we won’t tire ourselves into rewrite/”reconfigure” things all over again.

I’d like to thank you again for your feedback.

Spine is a very fast poller engine, written in C. It is an optional replacement for cmd.php.

http://blog.nicolargo.com/2007/03/cacti-le-complement-ideal-de-nagios.html

and yours : http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-and-configure-cacti-monitoring-tool-in-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-server.html

I’m trying to find sth in comon between these two tutoras - the last two links.
My stupid dummy question is that : What’s the differences by doing apt-get install cacti and cacti-spine?

Thanks in advance for every advice