Help with Cricket [RedHat Linux, Apache2, Perl-5.8]?

Tue Jan 11 23:32:25 PST 2005

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:52:54PM -0800, Henry Goldwire wrote:
> don't use cricket. it's too hard. use JFFNMS
> (http://www.jffnms.org/) or Cacti (http://www.cacti.net/),
> both of which are simple to set up (you end up configuring PHP
> and apache rather than hand-building all kinds of obnoxious
> cricket and/or rrd configs), _easily_ flexible, and can do
> monitor/graph lots of good stuff. In my opinion JFFNMS whomps
> cacti in the long run, and will also give your nagios/big
> brother/whatever a run for its money.

The one advantage that cacti has over the others is that there
are already prebuilt RPMs from who I consider a reliable 3rd
party packager:

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/cacti/

-Vince