What is Cacti ?

Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool, it stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. The frontend is completely PHP driven. Along with being able to maintain Graphs, Data Sources, and Round Robin Archives in a database, cacti handles the data gathering. There is also SNMP support for those used to creating traffic graphs with MRTG.

Preparing Anything

I assume you already have apache + php + mysql running in OpenSUSE11.

All About Groundwork Monitor Community Edition 5.3

What is Centreon ?

Centreon is frontend GUI applications that manages Nagios (similar to Groundwork's Fruity), uses MySQL database to create the /etc/nagios/*.cfg files necessary for the Nagios daemon.

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What is Smokeping?

SmokePing does not stand alone. It relies on various other tools and services being present. Apart from a Unix OS and a working Perl installation you need the following things. The list contains the names of the tools together with the version of the tool which I am using, and a link for downloading the tool.

Preparing anything to install Smokeping

Download Smokeping : http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/smokeping-2.4.2.tar.gz

By default, the yum repository configuration on Centos does not have rrdtool in it.

To Solve this problem, we need to add more repository that have rrdtool on it.

Login into your server via SSH with root access
[code]$cd /etc/yum.repos.d/[/code]

Create a file and name it dag.repo
[code]$vi dag.repo