Not necessarily. You can install the monitor plugin (cactiusers.org) to cacti and get all the alerts you want. While i suppose it doesn't come installed by default, it definitely combines graphing and alerting into a single package that works well.
I've used Nagios, but found Cacti and haven't turned back. Any other Cacti users out there? I found Cacti to be much easier to setup than Nagios and fairly extensible for the advance user.
What I want is my 1TB USB keychain (or iphone) to have my favorite OS, apps, and all my data, and to be able to plug it into CPU/keyboard/mouse/display/diskless/OSless stations in airplanes, cafes, hotels, etc. I think Apple has taken a step in that direction. Open Directory on OS X Leopard Server allows you to specify thumb drives as the users home directory location. The user simply sits down at a machine, plugs in their thumb drive and authenticate their account from which their files are loaded from the thumb drive. While the OS isn't on the thumbdrive as you suggest, I thought this to be a pretty cool option, especially in the K-12 school district environment I work in. The only downside is the read/write rates to thumb drives would inhibit anything requiring fast read/write access such as movie rendering, etc.
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I like the button at the top of recovery.org, "Report Fraud, Waste or Abuse". Can we report recovery.org?
To some extent yes. There are some plugins at cactiusers.org, one being a monitor plugin. Now it may not be as extensive and nagios, but it's a start.
Not necessarily. You can install the monitor plugin (cactiusers.org) to cacti and get all the alerts you want. While i suppose it doesn't come installed by default, it definitely combines graphing and alerting into a single package that works well.
I've used Nagios, but found Cacti and haven't turned back. Any other Cacti users out there? I found Cacti to be much easier to setup than Nagios and fairly extensible for the advance user.