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Need help with Nagios and Cacti - Nagios vs Cacti

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I'm FOTB, new to this whole nagios and cacti world. But I'm tasked with finding out how they function and integrate with each other. Can someone, some expert help me answer some basic questions?

I have a Windows 2003 Server environment (6 servers), Sun Solaris with Oracle and SambaFTP Zones. I need to be able to monitor all windows environments and Unix enviroments, Websphere, Mdaemon, SMTP, Samba, ncftpd, obsked and other network services and most importantly Oracle services running on Solaris and present them graphically. Do I need both nagios and Cacti to do that? Or can Cacti do both the monitoring and the graphical presentations on its own? Or can nagios handle it on its own. If I do need both, can they run on the same system. What would be the minimum system requirements for running Nagios and/or cacti. Does Cacti run on Unix?

Please Help!!

Thanks in advance
arit
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Do I need to install any nagios and cacti client agents on the hosts that will be monitored?
Depends. There is an agent for nagios that allows you to monitor remote linux servers that you dont want to monitor with SNMP. but in general if you have snmp enabled on the server there is nothing you will need to install, nagios or cacti will collect all the information they need.
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Also, if Cacti runs under Windows is it able to monitor Oracle, ncftpd, samba on solaris?
Anything that provides snmp information can be monitored by either. Both do a good job with traps as well. I specifically have only monitored samba from the list you specified.
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I use nagios (never usedd cacti) & monitor Oracle 9i, 10g & 11g running on redhat 4 & 5, suse 10 and solaris 9 & 10.
I also monitor windows 2003 servers, ftp services, samba, snmtp, tomcat/jboss and all email services.

So yes nagios can do all that.