![]() So, I turned to a paid service– JumpBox–that makes a number of very useful virtual machines available - at a very reasonable price. However, the edition available at that site did not include the latest version of Cacti, which includes soe features we wanted to use at Westminster. For our Cacti installation, I initially used an appliance I found on the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace. There are also companies out there building and selling virtual appliances with support. There are a number of sites out there providing these free prebuilt virtual appliances. No half-working Windows installation instructions just a working monitoring system that ran out of the box, so to speak. Simply download the virtual appliance and install it on a virtual host and we’re off and running! No messy Linux installation. The next phase of open source, virtual appliances are completely prebuilt virtual machines that include everything needed to get a service up and running. I love both, but just wanted something that I could get working relatively quickly. However, I really didn’t want to go through building the whole setup on either Linux or Windows. Cacti provides an easier administrative experience than a bare bones MRTG installation. Over the years, I’ve installed and played with just about every open source network and server monitoring system out there and, after looking around a bit last week, decided that Cacti would be a reasonable replacement for our existing MRTG-only system. So, being the typical IT guy, I turned to Google for a solution. However, when I started to look at the amount of work that would be required to really bring our MRTG monitoring system back from the abyss, I cringed a bit. It’s still monitoring, but needs a whole lot of attention to be truly useful again. Case in point: Our old MRTG-based network monitoring system has fallen into a woeful state at Westminster College. ![]() Whenever it makes sense, I like to let other people do my work for me. ![]() ![]() Get up and running quickly and avoid the hassle of installing a system on your own. There are free appliances and paid appliances available to meet most needs. Virtual appliances - prebuilt virtual machines that include all of the components necessary to get a service running - abound. ![]() Deploy services quickly with prebuilt virtual appliances ![]()
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