CloudACM – Page 59 – Autonomous Computational Machines

Installing and configuring SmokePing on a Raspberry Pi

August 22, 2016 Patrick Gilfeather

These instructions are based from the blogs at MyHomeBroadband.com and kugelfish.com. Install Smokeping onto the Pi The nice thing about these steps is they aren’t confined to the Raspberry Pi. You can apply this to any Linux distribution. Open a terminal session and run the following command. sudo apt-get install smokeping The downloader has Apache included, however this was setup earlier when Webmin was installed. This appears to be a factor with some settings not being changed. Once downloaded, and…

Cacti Custom Graphing Features

August 15, 2016 Patrick Gilfeather

The default graphs that ship with Cacti provide a good starting point for your monitoring needs. However, you may find that the graphs don’t draw attention to what you would like. In this post, I’ll cover steps to customize your graphing functions. Also, we’ll cover ways to get more text information on your graphs, so lets begin. The default network traffic graph is reminiscent of the days of MRTG. I like to set my graph with both inbound and outbound…

Cacti Sandbox

August 8, 2016 Patrick Gilfeather

Introduction Having a sandbox is great way to test your disaster recovery methods. I’ll step through a process that makes a backup of the Cacti data. Then we can use that backup file to restore from as needed. There are some prerequirements to the steps I’ll be using. These are LAMP, phpMyAdmin, Webmin, Cacti, and a ssh client. Do keep in mind that any plugins or templates that are not standard are not included in this backup. This simply gives…