Semi-unrelated question on network monitoring

[Kauffman, Tom]

We have 14 remote sites (manufacturing facilities and distribution
warehouses) with an average of 5 Cisco switches each. We've been using
cricket to monitor the traffic on these switches, but cricket is doing a
number on the cpus of the system I'm running it on. And I've never
figured out how to get cricket and hobbit to integrate for alerts.

I just dropped devmon on my test system, and I really like the
integration -- but it looks like it's doing a number on my test system
cpu, and we do use the traffic graphs out of cricket to see trends.

So -- is cacti any lighter in it's footprint? Or easier to keep
up-to-date than cricket? Does it integrate well with hobbit?

Should I be looking at something else?

My current hobbit system is an ancient (as technology goes) Dell 4300
4-way P4 - 450 system with 1 GB of memory; my test system is a slightly
newer Dell 2300 2-way P4 - 500 with 512 MB of memory. 

Suggestions, please.

TIA

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc


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