Cacti is one of the most powerful open source front ends for RRDtool. Jack Wallen walks you through the steps to get this up and running, so you can gain access to handy network and system graphics.

I have found that most engineers have more monitoring on their transmission facilities than they do on their local network. Nonetheless, the engineering network has become critically important with ...

I am working to monitor the CPU usage of some Windows 2000 servers over a period of time (about a week) to get a trend analysis of roughly how much CPU utilization our various servers use. So far, the ...

For the past few years, I've been trying to understand how to make graphs using RRDtool (Round-Robin Database tool) after failing miserably to understand MRTG (Multi-Router Traffic Grapher) before ...