Cacti

Cacti is basically a PHP frontend for RRDTool.

While RRDTool is used to record traffic and MRTG to plot out the graphs, Cacti a fast PHP&MySQL interface to organize, filter and navigate through all the data.

Cacti provides a fast way to sip through the data without having to search hundreds of graphs for the desired info.

The Cacti system simply reads RRDTool data and exports it to a MySQL data, where it can be easily be queried via SQL and only the necessary and correct data displayed.

Cacti includes lots of useful features for LAN networks admins that want to keep an eye on their traffic, but website owners as well, if they use RRDTool to monitor who's accessing their system.

While more specialized analytics services are available for the later category, Cacti is for older *NIX developers that can read RRDTool graphs just like normal people read books.

Features:

• Easy to read graphs
• Graph legends
• Can record and plot data almost in real-time
• SNMP support
• Graph grouping
• Data source templates
• Graph templates
• Host templates
• Customizable data gathering methods
• Multi-user system
• User level permissions

What is new in this release:

• Added native jquery, jqueryui, and jstree
• Fixed issues with 'Clear' under preview not working
• Added new Tree navigation
• Added Columns and Thumbnails to Preview
• Added Columns to Tree (Preview only)
• Both Graphs and Columns default to 'Default'
• Resolved Left hand navigation taking entire page
• Added new graph zoom to tree view and preview offering a "quick" (default) and an "advanced" mode

What is new in version 0.8.8b:

• Bugs:
• Fixed issue with custom data source information being lost when saved from edit
• Repopulate the poller cache on new installations
• Fix issue with poller not escaping the script query path correctly
• Allow snmpv3 priv proto none
• Fix issue where host activate may flush the entire poller item cache
• SQL injection and shell escaping issues

What is new in version 0.8.7g:

• RRDTool 1.4.x not recognized during installation
• Implement windows-aware shell escaping
• Fixed multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities reported by Tomas Hoger of the Red Hat Security Response Team
• Over 8TByte Partition in Windows cant get correct data from snmp
• Unable to login after redirection to access denied page
• "Show the page that user pointed their browser" does not seem to work
• Over zelous HTML excaping on filter strings
• LDAP-Authentifications does not work due to ldap_host being set incorrect
• Feature from bug#0001271 breaks on large values
• Web Basic authentication does not work with fastcgi
• Max OID's max value reported incorrectly in Web UI
• oid_suffix do not work correctly for input direction on data queries
• Alternate font styles do not work correctly
• Unable to add graph permissions on a user
• LDAP realm authentication outputs warning for undefined index
• Tech support does not work correctly with RRDTool 1.4.x
• Page refresh setting not being honored
• "index count changed" not implemented for query_unix_partitions.pl, query_host_partitions.pl, query_cpu_partitions.pl, ss_host_cpu.php and ss_host_disk.php
• Character encoding problem after upgrade to 0.8.7f
• Tech support page does account for no memory limit set for PHP
• Simultaneous databases connections are not supported