Appendix B. Online Resources

Cacti website

The main Cacti website provides the latest patches as well as lots of other useful information. You can visit it at: http://www.cacti.net.

Spine

Spine is a high performance poller which, by far, exceeds the performance of the original cmd.php. You can find the latest spine version at:

http://www.cacti.net/spine_download.php.

Plugin Architecture

The Plugin Architecture provides additional functionality to Cacti. You won't be able to use any plugins without installing it. The upcoming Cacti version 0.8.8, which is still under development, is going to include the Plugin Architecture. You can download the latest Plugin Architecture at:

http://www.cacti.net/downloads/pia/.

Cacti documentation

The Cacti community, as well as Cacti developers, provide lots of documentation for Cacti, the available plugins, scripts, and templates. You can access the Cacti documentation site at:

http://docs.cacti.net/.

Cacti forum

The main source for support and information is the Cacti forum. You can find it at:

http://forums.cacti.net/.

Cacti bug reporting

If you find a bug in Cacti, and the community in the forums can confirm it, you should post a bug ticket in their tracker at:

http://bugs.cacti.net/.

Cacti plugin hooks overview

You can find a list of available hooks provided by the Plugin Architecture and their description at the following page:

http://docs.cacti.net/plugins:development.hook_api_ref.

Cacti Users' site

The Cacti Users' site provides some additional plugins, as well as the CactiEZ ISO images. CactiEZ allows you to install a full Cacti system with the Plugin Architecture, as well as having several plugins already installed and configured. You can find the Cacti Users' site at:

http://www.cactiusers.org/.

Howie's stuff

Howie, an active user from the forums, provides the well-known Weathermap plugin for Cacti. You can find his page at:

www.network-weathermap.com.

RRDTool

RRDTool provides the basis for data storage within Cacti. You can find more information on it at:

http://www.mrtg.org/rrdtool/.

Tobi Oetiker

Of course, when talking about RRDTool, the creator of this and many other useful tools, Tobi Oetiker, should also be mentioned. You can find his homepage at:

http://tobi.oetiker.ch/hp/.

RRDTool, Cacti, and time zones

You should always have your Cacti server run in UTC time. There's a good article about why you should do so at:

http://www.vandenbogaerdt.nl/rrdtool/timezone.php.

Xing German Cacti group

There's a German speaking Cacti group on Xing.com. Look here for more:

https://www.xing.com/net/pri1c981ex/cacti

LinkedIn Cacti Group

Of course there's also a Cacti group on LinkedIn:

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=968927

NMID plugins and CereusReporting

The CereusReporting plugin as well as the NMID plugins have their own pages. You can find more information at:

http://www.network-outsourcing.de/