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Cacti 0.8 beginner's guide : learn Cacti and design a robust network operations center / Thomas Urban.
AUTOR:
Thomas Urban
ISBN:
9781849513920
IDIOMA:
eng
PÁGINAS:
XII, 327
AÑO:
2011
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RECOMENDADO EN LAS SIGUIENTES ASIGNATURAS
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RESUMEN
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We learn in the book that an early version was first deployed in 2001. Yet this book in 2011, ten years later, refers to Cacti Version 0.8. You [or at least me] might reasonably wonder why this is not at version 1. The text describes many reporting features, and it supports the 3 versions of SNMP that are out there on the net. Plus, it sits atop a MySql database, and uses PHP to generate reporting results.
All this use of freeware will be encouraging to many readers. It lets you avail of a free performance monitor for your network. Now the book's cover does say 'design a robust Network Operations Center'. A NOC, at least to me, carries connotations of a multimillion dollar centre, with many machines and massive bandwidth. If the cover's claim is true, then having a free performance tool, which you can customise with plug-ins, by the way, is terrific.
There is one possible caveat. The book talks about many reporting abilities. But not so much about scaling across numerous machines. I'm not so concerned about the underlying MySql database. It certainly would have capacity to hold massive performance data for a lot of nodes. But more about the scaling of the Cacti engine itself, to scrutinise the network traffic and the node usages. |
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