Chapter 7. Network and Server Monitoring
Let's now look at how you set up the different devices to be monitored by Cacti. In this chapter you'll learn how to set up some Cisco devices and prepare Windows systems to be monitored using WMI.
In this chapter we are going to:
- Provide a short overview of device monitoring
- Describe the setup of Cisco network devices
- Configure a VMware ESX server
- Prepare a Windows system for WMI monitoring
Let's start!
An introduction to network and server monitoring
The main task of Cacti is to measure the performance of network devices and SNMP capable servers. With some add-ons Cacti is also able to monitor WMI-enabled Windows hosts. So let's first look in more detail at the different options which you have.
Network devices ...
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