Posts tagged Monitoring

So this week I’ve been taking a break from planning our Exchange 2010 migration and have been playing around with Cacti as currently we have very little data on things like network and server usage short of a couple of key websites being monitored by an external site to track uptime, but absolutely nothing to tell us if servers are being overloaded or that our internet connection is being saturated.

For those who haven’t heard of Cacti before, its an open-source PHP based frontend that can be used to graph pretty much any data source you can feed it with the most popular source being SNMP which pretty much any business class network enabled bit of electronics supports these days. Even if you only have quite a small network like ours, it can be very useful to actually visualise whats going on, and its a lot easier to show your boss a graph showing how your internet connection is maxed out and needs replacing/upgrading than any other way!

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