cacti

Introduction

Cacti is a great tool for graphing system/network activity, especially for Cisco devices.

The following are a few tips on getting a Cacti server (on Ubuntu 8.10 / Cacti 0.8.7b in this example) up and running quickly.

Installation

Install cacti and relevant tools:

apt-get install snmp cacti curl

Browser to http://HOST/cacti, login as admin/admin and change the password