[xymon] devmon or mrtg which is good for network devices monitoring

[SebA]

Epp, Matthew Mr CTR USA USA <mailto:matthew.epp at us.army.mil> wrote:
> Daniel J McDonald wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 20:56 +0530, rigved sharma wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> sorry for the earlier mail..i want to know which one is good for
>>> xymon for network devices monitoring..devmon/mrtg.
>>> Please help.
>> 
>> It's a religious question.  I use mrtg because it supports snmp-v3, I
>> already have my templates built, and I can live with the hack that is
>> bb-mrtg.pl.  Other people like devmon, but I haven't been able to
>> test it because of the snmp-v3 issue.
>> 
> 
> I use devmon for some device polling, although it takes some
> time writing templates for devices.
> Instead of mrtg we use Cacti. It's easier to manage and most
> device templates already exist for
> importing.

Can Cacti integrate with Xymon? I found this:
http://www.deadcat.net/viewfile.php?fileid=921
But the description doesn't look confidence-inspiring.

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