Thomas Urban, Author at Urban-Software.de

HowTo – Setup InfluxDB Datasource in Grafana

July 19, 2016 Thomas UrbanUncategorizedLeave a comment0

Welcome to this little HowTo on setting up an InfluxDB Datasource for Grafana. If you have followed the other guides on setting up influxdb and installing Grafana on Centos then you should be able to follow this little guide with ease.

New HowTo for installing Grafana on CentOs 7 available !

July 15, 2016 Thomas UrbanUncategorizedLeave a comment0

There’s a new HowTo available for installing Grafana on a CentOs 7 system. You can use that along with the influxdb howto to get a target system up and running to be used with the CereusTransporter plugin. Follow this link for more details: HowTo Install Grafana on CentOs 7

CereusReporting Personal available

June 2, 2016 Thomas UrbanCacti, CereusReportingLeave a comment0

A new CereusReporting Personal edition of CereusReporting for Home users is now available. It has the full features of the Professional edition (limited to 1 server) and can be used for non-commercial use.

Look here for more information:

Monitor Linux Server with Cacti – Part 1

May 19, 2016 Thomas UrbanCactiLeave a comment0

In this little HowTo series “Monitor Linux Server with Cacti” we are going to look into configuring a Linux server to be monitored by Cacti and how to create the graphs within Cacti itself.

New online shop available

April 15, 2016 Thomas UrbanUncategorizedLeave a comment0

We’re proud to announce the availability of our new online-shop integrated right into this website. The new shop allows you to select the products and services you need and get an immediate overview of the attached costs. While there are currently only a few products available, we are planning to more during the coming weeks.

Visit the new shop here: Online Shop

New Online Support Portal available !

March 8, 2016 Thomas UrbanUncategorizedLeave a comment0

We have opened a new online support portal which allows our customers to track issues and requests easily ! Read More

CereusAgent Updates

February 26, 2016 Thomas UrbanCacti, CereusAgentLeave a comment0

We’re working on an update of the CereusAgent plugin, which includes several performance improvements as well as data reliability enhancements to increase data consistency during longer WAN/Network connectivity outages. Read More

Installing InfluxDB on CentOS 7

February 8, 2016 Thomas UrbanCacti, InfluxDBLeave a comment0

A new InfluxDB on CentOS HowTo has been created, describing the installation steps required to get a new influxdb instance running on a CentOS 7 based system.

Visualizing Cacti Data with Grafana and InfluxDB

December 29, 2015 Thomas UrbanCacti, InfluxDB5 Comments0

Introduction

Cacti has a great polling engine for retrieving SNMP, WMI and other data from a lot of different devices. It generally stores the data into RRD files which are then being used to create the actual graphs for the users to view. By using InfluxDB together with Grafana as a frontend, it is possible to built an easy to use performent dashboard for end-users utilizing the Cacti polling engine.

Grouping Devices by Site with Monitor

November 26, 2015 Thomas UrbanCacti3 Comments0

A new feature for the monitor plugin for Cacti has been created: Grouping devices by site ! This allows you to quickly see issues in one particular site/location without the need to look over a complete list of hosts. Read More

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Introduction