Disaster Recovery (DR) is a fundamental component of an organization’s overall business continuity strategy. Its explicit focus is on ensuring that the IT systems supporting
Category: Network Monitoring
From cmd.php to Spine: A Comprehensive Guide to Enhancing Cacti Polling and Scalability
Cacti is a powerful and widely used open-source network monitoring and graphing tool. By default, Cacti often utilizes the cmd.php poller, which, while functional, can
Incident Report: Cacti Database Connection Failure Post yum upgrade
Incident Summary After performing a system upgrade using “yum upgrade“, the Cacti monitoring system became inaccessible. The root cause was traced to a symbolic link
How Telcos are Leveraging the Mistral 7B Instruct LLM to Build Advanced Data Analytics Engines: A Comprehensive Technical Analysis
In the rapidly evolving telecommunications industry, the ability to efficiently analyze and interpret vast amounts of data is crucial. With the advent of large language
Let’s Secure Our Cacti Web Portal with a Free SSL Certificate From LetsEncrypt
If you missed my previous article, in which I did walk you through installing Cacti Server on CentOS 9, you can read it here. Today,
How to Monitor Packet Loss, Latency and Jitter Using Cacti’s Advanced Ping Template
If you work in Telecom or ISP networks operations environment, these three KPIs; Packet Loss, Latency, and Jitter are something that you must deal with
Let’s Add the WeatherMap Plugin to Our Brand-new Cacti 1.2.23 Installation (Works for All Cacti 1.x upwards)
The Cacti Weathermap is a plugin for the Cacti network monitoring system that allows you to create live network maps from the network statistics you
Just Installed Cacti 1.2.23 Network Monitoring Tool on CentOS Stream 9 And it Was Smooth
If you work in network operations especially managing routers, switches, firewalls and servers, then you definitely have interacted with this amazing tool called Cacti. Cacti