Cacti on Dapper Server

[Damien Hull]

Martin Marcher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sunday 06 January 2008 21:39 Damien Hull wrote:
>   
>> Is there some secret way to get Cacti installed?
>>     
>
> cacti isn't exactly a 5 minute thing. IIRC it does have a good documentation
> and (but?) it's quite a learning curve.
>
> Personally I use zabbix for monitoring which provides nice graphs (though
> not as powerfull as cacti's) _plus_ notifications (jabber, mail, sms).
> Again nagios may be stronger on the notification side but given
> the "simplicity" compared to the others zabbix is just right for me.
>
> hth
> martin
>
>   
I got zabbix installed. It works!

It was a little tricky compiling it. I also had trouble getting the 
graphs turned on. Overall I think this is better the Cacti. It works and 
Cacti doesn't. At least not on Dapper.

Thanks!