We have 14 remote sites (manufacturing facilities and distribution warehouses) with an average of 5 Cisco switches each. We've been using cricket to monitor the traffic on these switches, but cricket is doing a number on the cpus of the system I'm running it on. And I've never figured out how to get cricket and hobbit to integrate for alerts.
I just dropped devmon on my test system, and I really like the integration -- but it looks like it's doing a number on my test system cpu, and we do use the traffic graphs out of cricket to see trends.
So -- is cacti any lighter in it's footprint? Or easier to keep up-to-date than cricket? Does it integrate well with hobbit?
Should I be looking at something else?
My current hobbit system is an ancient (as technology goes) Dell 4300 4-way P4 - 450 system with 1 GB of memory; my test system is a slightly newer Dell 2300 2-way P4 - 500 with 512 MB of memory.
Suggestions, please.
TIA
Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc
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