02-08-2011
Uh... Nagios does pretty much all of the features of Cacti... all of the above use RRD Tool...
Nagios > Cacti > MRTG > etc.
(read as blah greater than blah... etc)
With that said, we switched away from Nagios to just using Cacti... it all depends on WHAT your needs are. IMHO, if Nagios is interesting you probably want to look at ZenOSS as well. For graphs, we found Cacti to be better for monitoring things. Has a good community. Ideally, I'd like to write my own though...
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
nagios3stats
nagios3stats(8) nagios nagios3stats(8)
NAME
nagios3stats - report statistics information from the nagios system
SYNOPSIS
nagios3stats [-hVL] [-c config] [-m] [-d]
DESCRIPTION
nagios3stats Is a program designed to provide information on the running nagios system. It can provide a brief summary of information, or
it can be used to export specific information about the nagios system into an MRTG-compatible format. For more information please consult
the nagios online documentation available at http://www.nagios.org or the documentation available with your nagios server's web page.
OPTIONS
-c|--config=FILE
The main configuration file. On debian systems this defaults to /etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg
-m|--mrtg
Print output in MRTG-compatible format. For more details run nagios3stats with --help
-d|--data=VARS
Comma-seperated list of variables to output in MRTG format. For more details run nagios3stats with --help.
-h|--help
A helpful usage message
-V|--version
Print version information
-L|--license
Print license details
FILES
/etc/nagios3
Default configuration directory for nagios3
AUTHOR
nagios3 is written and maintained by Ethan Galstad <nagios@nagios.org>. This manual page was written by sean finney <seanius@debian.org>
for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system (but it may be freely used, modified, and redistributed by others).
sean finney February 2006 nagios3stats(8)