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-[Cacti] is a [PHP]/[MySQL] frontend to [rrdtool]. It handles the storage of all the information required to create and populate [rrdtool] graphs. Along with being able to maintain Graphs, Data Sources, and [RoundRobinArchive]s in a database, cacti handles the data gathering also. There is also SNMP support for those used to creating traffic graphs with MRTG.
+[Cacti|http://www.cacti.net/
] is a [PHP]/[MySQL] frontend to [rrdtool]. It handles the storage of all the information required to create and populate [rrdtool] graphs. Along with being able to maintain Graphs, Data Sources, and [RoundRobinArchive]s in a database, cacti handles the data gathering also. There is also SNMP support for those used to creating traffic graphs with MRTG.
You can use Cacti to gather any sort of data, or fetch information from [SNMP] capable hosts.
To 'manually' handle data gathering, you can feed cacti the command line for any external script/command along with any data that the user will need to "fill in" (IP addresses etc). Cacti will then gather this data in a cron-job and populate a [MySQL] database/the round robin archives.
