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.

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 ...

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 ...

I have found that most engineers have more monitoring on their transmission facilities than they do on their local network. Nonetheless, the engineering network has become critically important with ...

I am working to monitor the CPU usage of some Windows 2000 servers over a period of time (about a week) to get a trend analysis of roughly how much CPU utilization our various servers use. So far, the ...