Cacti

mj_official · 03-14-2013, 02:17 PM

Hi guys, I'm new to cacti and I installed it on an Ubuntu server and would like to generate reports but I don't know how.. would appreciate your help

TB0ne · 03-14-2013, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by mj_official

Hi guys, I'm new to cacti and I installed it on an Ubuntu server and would like to generate reports but I don't know how.. would appreciate your help

Help with what? You've not posted a problem.

Google can point you to resources for Cacti reporting; so can the cacti forums:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&output=...w=1560&bih=732
http://cactiusers.org/forums/topic836.html&start=45
http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=18796
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cacti-reportit/

You don't say what kind of reports, frequency, version/distro of Linux, version of Cacti, etc. Very little anyone can 'help' with.

mj_official · 03-14-2013, 04:46 PM

Thanks TB0ne, I'm very new to cacti. Do I need to install any plugin or additional software for cacti to generate these reports? I've seen those links before I posted here but I think what I need is to see that particular option on creating reports. I don't have a reports tab in my cacti, what I have is just console and graphs tab.

Cacti Version 0.8.7i

TB0ne · 03-14-2013, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by mj_official

Thanks TB0ne, I'm very new to cacti. Do I need to install any plugin or additional software for cacti to generate these reports? I've seen those links before I posted here but I think what I need is to see that particular option on creating reports. I don't have a reports tab in my cacti, what I have is just console and graphs tab.

Cacti Version 0.8.7i

Well, those links are for Cacti Plugins. And again, you don't say WHAT reports you want to generate, so it's hard to give a decent answer. Cacti puts data into an RRD database, which CAN be reported from, but gives you limited options for reporting. Zabbix and Nagios can have backend databases, which can be used with ODBC tools, to generate ad-hoc reports much easier.