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Monitoring Linux and Windows hosts with SNMP and Cacti

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SNMP is a communication specification that defines how management information is exchanged between network management applications and management agents.

Cacti is a resource monitoring software. It uses RRDtool to store data and the data is used create graphs. It also comes with fast poller to collect data from different resources simultaneously and has many user management features. The interface and management is very userfriendly that even a layman can get it working with less effort.

This article is about how to monitor Linux and Windows hosts with SNMP (2c version) and Cacti.
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This is a small guide that I used for quickly installing FreeBSD for Internet gates. I will update it periodically, so any comments are welcome. I don’t claim that this is the best way, it’s just my way.

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