Monitoring within IT is a necessity. Let’s just get that out of the way now. IT employees and management need it in order to survive. Without it, the word “proactive” never enters in to the vocabulary, and a death spiral ensues as users and customers alike beat on IT for unexpected and unplanned outages. An
I found out the hard way that the monitoring tool Cacti does not really support rrdtool 1.3.2. Fortunately, there is an easy workaround. Edit cacti/lib/rrd.php and comment out line 1685: // return “–font ” . strtoupper($type) . “:” . $size . “:” . $font . RRD_NL;