Download Cacti 0.8.7c

The developers of Cacti released a new stable version of the program a while ago. It concerns version 0.8.7c, which from this page for various Linux distributions and Windows can be downloaded. Cacti is a frontend for RRDTool and offers more extensive possibilities to graph data about e-mail traffic, a computer, a server and practically everything monitored by Simple Network Management Protocol. To do its job, Cacti needs an environment with MySQL, PHP, RRDTool, net-snmp and a web server with Apache or IIS. Below are the most important updates of version 0.8.7c posted. A detailed overview can be found on here be read:

There are quite a few new features in the 0.8.7c release. Some highlights include:

• Pagination and Searching from the Tree
• Implementation of Structured RRD Paths
• Improved Graph/Device/Tree Automation
• RRDtool 1.3 Support
• Improved LDAP Support
• Several Graph Export Fixes
• Reapply Suggested Names for Data Sources
• Saving Data Templates Could Cause Graphs to Break
• A new Availability Method Called “Ping or SNMP”
• Improved balancing of poller threads by taking number of data sources per host into account

Upgrade Notes

• Several new indexes for a UI speed improvement
• Several minor column specification and naming changes