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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 post is for quick reference and it contains instructions about how to create several types of SNMPv3 users. Instructions is for the following types of users:

simpleUser with no authentication and no privacy
uMD5 with MD5 authentication and no privacy
uSHA with SHA authentication and no privacy
uMD5DES with MD5 authentication and DES privacy
uSHADES with SHA authentication and DES privacy
uMD5AES128 with MD5 authentication and AES128 privacy
uSHAAES128 with SHA authentication and AES128 privacy

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