Comments on: Secure, easy Cacti graphing without SNMP http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/04/25/secure-easy-cacti-graphing-without-snmp/ Stay curious! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:56:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jimb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/04/25/secure-easy-cacti-graphing-without-snmp/#comment-16417 jimb Tue, 05 May 2009 20:11:55 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=1041#comment-16417 just ditch cacti and put together a <a href="http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net/ganglia_gmond_python_modules" rel="nofollow">gmond plugin</a> pleeeaase :) just ditch cacti and put together a gmond plugin

pleeeaase :)

]]> By: Gil http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/04/25/secure-easy-cacti-graphing-without-snmp/#comment-16368 Gil Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:11:06 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=1041#comment-16368 What Hyperic has going for it is ease of setup. It is dead simple to implement. Just run an installer, start the client daemon, and go. I suppose it worked well until our servers got very busy, and eventually all that table locking caused too many queries to show up when running SHOW PROCESSLIST. When I finally realized the problem and disabled Hyperic entirely, our homepage response time dropped by 30%! Personally, I never found all those db and table level statistics useful anyway. What Hyperic has going for it is ease of setup. It is dead simple to implement. Just run an installer, start the client daemon, and go.

I suppose it worked well until our servers got very busy, and eventually all that table locking caused too many queries to show up when running SHOW PROCESSLIST. When I finally realized the problem and disabled Hyperic entirely, our homepage response time dropped by 30%!

Personally, I never found all those db and table level statistics useful anyway.

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/04/25/secure-easy-cacti-graphing-without-snmp/#comment-16359 Xaprb Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:16:32 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=1041#comment-16359 We've seen servers brought to their knees by Hyperic, too. Running tons of commands every second or so, including -- of all things -- FLUSH TABLES. Gah. I love the quote they have on their homepage, from MySQL themselves of all people. We’ve seen servers brought to their knees by Hyperic, too. Running tons of commands every second or so, including — of all things — FLUSH TABLES. Gah. I love the quote they have on their homepage, from MySQL themselves of all people.

]]> By: Gil http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/04/25/secure-easy-cacti-graphing-without-snmp/#comment-16357 Gil Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:57:57 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=1041#comment-16357 I had to disable Hyperic recently because it was seriously impacting server performance. I've been lazy about finding a replacement, but your blog post finally inspired me to start graphing again. Ran into a few small issues with the setup (mainly due to never having used Cacti), but I managed to get everything setup in about 2 hours. Thanks Baron! I had to disable Hyperic recently because it was seriously impacting server performance. I’ve been lazy about finding a replacement, but your blog post finally inspired me to start graphing again.

Ran into a few small issues with the setup (mainly due to never having used Cacti), but I managed to get everything setup in about 2 hours. Thanks Baron!

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/04/25/secure-easy-cacti-graphing-without-snmp/#comment-16349 Xaprb Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:26:37 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=1041#comment-16349 Akismet is generally very good, and only rarely spams something it shouldn't. Bad Behaviour is the real secret sauce for this blog. Akismet is generally very good, and only rarely spams something it shouldn’t. Bad Behaviour is the real secret sauce for this blog.

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