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[lschafroth]

Are people installing cacti so the cacti graphs can be integrated into the nedi reports or is it the other way around?

I have a Cisco network of 49 devices and have Nedi 1.0.5 doing a run every 5 minutes.

This creates graphs for my switches and the ports.

So what are people doing with cacti on the same machine?

I would love to have a page that shows all the back bones of my network and their utilization so I can have this on a monitor in my office for live viewing.  Is this a feature of cacti or nedi?

LAnnie

[isc]

If nedi does a 5min discovery u dont need cacti.
Usually if the network is big, nedi does just a discovery every hour. So cacti is used for some specific 5min interval on some backbone device.

And the feature you are talking about is probably the nedi map function. So you dont need cacti.

[oxo]

NeDi does some things one way, Cacti another.
For example, Cacti can give ]weathermap which some people like.
So NeDi's father gave you the best of both worlds: giving integration between both worlds.

As stated, if you "just" want RRD's and you can do a full NeDi run in 5 min: then NeDi is enough.
And if you want "something more", then Cacti has "plugins" like weathermap.