Quick to set up and easy to use, it's a good first step toward keeping an eye on your network’s health The world doesn’t revolve around IT. Consultants like yours truly sometimes have a hard time ...

Based on RRDTool, Cacti is "a complete network graphing solution." That means that Cacti polls your devices, gathers the data, then provides graphs based on what you configured. Cacti is a free open ...

In the real estate world, the mantra is location, location, location. In the network and server administration world, the mantra is visibility, visibility, visibility. If you don’t know what your ...

Cacti is one of the most powerful open source front ends for RRDtool. Jack Wallen walks you through the steps to get this up and running, so you can gain access to handy network and system graphics.

A few weeks ago, I pointed out RRDTool, a powerful open source technology for storing and graphing network monitoring data. Collecting data is all well and good, but you also have to have good ...

While the popular Nagios application is a good real-time monitoring program, you can better track both uptime and performance by employing Cacti to monitor and collect device information.

A critical vulnerability in the Cacti Web-based open source framework for monitoring network performance gives attackers a way to disclose Cacti's entire database contents — presenting a prickly risk ...