freebsd

freebsd

type:: user_template_host
usertemplate:: freebsd
author:: macan
description:: FreeBSD host template (ps, cpu, memory, gmirror, raid, TCP connections, mailstats, spam, apcups, smart, ntp, ports, ipfw, ...), works with pfSense, FreeNAS, ...
Cacti:: 0.8.8a
date:: 2013-08-31
email:: petr.macek@kostax.cz
includes:: yes
script:: PHP Script Server
templates:: freebsd,; pfSense FreeNAS,; unix,; raid,; gmirror,; ntp,; apcups,; smart,; ports,; queue,; tcp,; temperature,; bind,; mailstats,; spam

Information

Host template for FreeBSD server. Host template making graphs and collecting values gained from ucd/generic snmp and own shell scripts. Part of monitored values is same as periodic.conf provides. Works with pfSense or FreeNAS (http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=45979)

This host template contains templates for:

gmirror (total/active disk) and raid (camcontrol, mptutil)
TCP connections
mailstats (count and bytes)
open/max files
Bind (number of requests, succesfull, authoritative and noauthoritative answers)
spam - Spam, blacklist, greylist (stats from maillog)
apcups (line V, load, Battery charge, timeleft, temperature)
processes and states
mail/client queue for sendmail and postfix
smartmontools - disks and errors
NTP (root dispersion, jitter, offset)
installed ports (total/old/vulnerable)
users (total/logged in/without password)
denied packet
…

Second part of template contains generic snmp and ucd templates for disk, cpu, load, interface statistics and …

Advantages:

Data are collected only via snmp
Lower load against collecting data via ssh command
It is possible to add another values
You can use data from shell script or a binary
In combination with threshold = very useful alerting tool for everything (raid volume fail, …)
all important values from different sources (raid, smartmontools, apcupsd) are stored in one place