Cacti
Well our age’ed Dell server has finally hit a limit with cacti.
Currently it has:
Hosts:354 Data-Sources:16943 RRDs Processed:8744
And has hit a limit with Disk i/o.
What I plan to do is: Move it onto a temp virtual server. Completely rebuild the old dell with two RAID 1 sets each on 2 disks – One for the RRA and one for the DB and see how it put up with that. The rebuild should help on the disk layout too – due to all the network changes and low disk space its likely the disk could have a few few frags.
If this doesn’t work and it still struggles, then I’ll use one of the various other spare dells (might have to be one without a raid card – so it’ll be software raid) and stick the database and possibly front end on it.
Once we have it stable again – I suppose I better look into a better way of coping with gigabit Ethernet cards in windows – currently we use the SnmpProxy2.pl hack – may just be a case of limiting it to Windows servers some how and not all 64bit Ethernet counters.
September 12, 2006
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robert · 
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