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Re: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

  • From: Jason LeBlanc
  • Date: Wed Jan 24 08:58:03 2007

I would say somewhere around 4000 network interfaces (6-8 stats per int) and around 1000 servers (8-10 stats per server) we started seeing problems, both with navigation in the UI and with stats not reliably updating. I did not try that poller, perhaps its worth trying it again using it. I will also say this was about 2 years ago, I think the box it was running on was a dual P3-1000 with a raid 10 using 6 drives (10k rpm I think).

After looking for 'the ideal' tool for many years, it still amazes me that no one has built it. Bulk gets, scalable schema and good portal/UI. RTG is better than MRTG, but the config/db/portal are still lacking.


Jon Lewis wrote:

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Jason LeBlanc wrote:

Anyone thats seen MRTG (simple, static) on a large network realizes that decoupling the graphing from the polling is necessary. The disk i/o is brutal. Cacti has a slick interface, but also doesn't scale all that well for large networks. I prefer RTG, though I haven't seen a nice interface for it, yet.

How large did you have to get for cacti to "not scale"? Did you try the cactid poller [which is much faster than the standard poller]?

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