Web server torturing

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 21:07 -0600, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 18:02 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > Before we get started I'm hoping to get
> > cacti set up for a good baseline.
> 
> Not to denigrate Cacti but you might want to take a look at Zabbix... It
> was recently included in FE (I did the review).  It's a little bit
> trickier to set up but the polling is done using a server & agent
> written in C, as opposed to Cacti which is largely PHP.  I've been
> working on a Zabbix install at work and I poll a number of variables
> every 5 sec.
> 

cacti in php doesn't matter. It's the snmp interface in cacti which does
the tricks and that's all done using snmp libs. It also has the
advantage of just being another use of snmp instead of being it's own
whole thing.

-sv