RE: MRTG vs PRTG

Eseosa,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> garry baker
> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:29 AM
> To: eseosa
> Cc: Cisco certification
> Subject: Re: MRTG vs PRTG
> MRTG good for *nix, but i think CACTI might be the thing to look at for
> the
> easier graphing setup...
>

I agree with Garry here, I'm using Cacti to graph about 15,000 RRD's with a moderately sized box. My poll cycles take between 65 - 75 seconds and are run every 5 minutes.

MRTG and Cacti use Tobias Oetiker's RRDtool to create graphs, so they are essentially the same. Cacti's frontend is much more user friendly though. The code is pretty stable and they respond quickly on their forums. If you're concerned about running Windows vs. nix, Cacti works fine in a XAMPP environment.

> but i am not sure that PRTG and MRTG or even CACTI are really the same
> tool,
> PRTG has more functions built in for the commercial paid version of
> their
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:16 PM, eseosa <eseosa.ehiwe_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi group ,
> >
> > Based on personal experiences which would you recommend , MRTG or
> PRTG.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > --
> > Warm Regards,
> >
> > Eseosa
> > CCIE #23782
> >

-ryan

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Received on Thu Feb 18 2010 - 16:45:26 ART