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Overview
Cacti is a network monitoring/graphing application, which is replacing the MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher) monitoring/graphing tool. Cacti is built around the RRDTool, which is an open source high performance data logging and graphing system. Cacti will be used to monitor information such as Network Traffic, CPU Utilization, Memory, and Temperature. Based on some preset thresholds, Cacti has the ability to send alerting Email once the thresholds have been exceeded. Cacti operates using user generated graphs. Below is a list of the components that comprise the Cacti monitoring system.
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