Cacti group has developed and is still developing a large number of plugins extending cacti. Some of them are adopted from the community.
Of course plugins can be developed by anyone, our documentation contains everything needed. We do our best to keep the plugins we support working with current versions of cacti.
Here is a list of the plugins we support and a short description of them.
Thold
The Cacti thold plugin is designed to be a fault management system driven by Cacti's Graph information. It provides the facility to inspect data in a Cacti Graph and the underlying RRDfile, and generate alerts for management and operations personnel. It provides Email, Syslog, and SNMP Trap or Inform escalations. In addition, it also can notify personnel of Cacti Device status changes.
Intropage
User defined dashboards for Cacti. Each user can create own dashboards.
Maint
Plugin is for the scheduling of maintenance so that Thold/Servcheck and other plugins will not alert during that time period.
Monitor
This plugin allows you to view at a glance all your critical Cacti hosts, and will alert you audibly and via Email when a Device or Devices go down.
Mikrotik
This plugin provides support for the MikroTik RouterOS available from MikroTik and other router and switch hardware suppliers. It is not a replacement for MikroTik's GUI interface, but provides nice Cacti Graphs.
Routerconfigs
The routerconfigs plugin is designed to receive and create backups from your network devices. It also provides the ability to view and diff those router configurations as they change over time. It is designed primarily for Cisco device types, but may work with other device types.
ReportIt
This plugin creates tabular reports which can be exported to CSV, SML and XML as well.
Evidence
Plugin provides information about device serial numbers, software/firmware versions and much more information from SNMP Entity MIB
Mactrack
Scan network devices (switches, routers, ..) for connected devices
FlowView
This plugin allows you to view NetFlow data from inside of Cacti and to generate Email based reports of the data.
Servcheck
Internet services (http, imap, ldap, ...) monitoring plugin. This plugin allows you to add service monitoring to Cacti. You simply add service check, allow service specific test (like certificate test) and you can add the expected response. Servcheck periodically runs test and notifies if a service check fails. The plugin records statistics about the connection, it's response, and can alert when the status changes.
HMIB
The hmib plugin is designed to collect SNMP information from Cacti Devices that support the SNMP Host Resources Mib structure. This SNMP information includes performance metrics like CPU utilization, running processes and applications, hardware details, ...
Weathermap
Weathermap is one of many implementations of the same basic idea - take data from your network devices and use it to provide a single-page overview of the current state of network, like the one to the right.
Syslog
It provides a simple Syslog event search an Alert generation and notification interface that can generate both HTML and SMS messages for operations personnel who wish to receive notifications inside of a data or network operations center. When combined by the Linux SNMPTT package, it can be converted into an SNMP Trap and Inform receiver and notification engine as the SNMPTT tool will receive SNMP Traps and Informs and convert them into Syslog messages on your log server. These syslog messages can then be consumed by the syslog plugin. So, this tool is quite handy
Slowlog
The plugin will allow a Cacti Administrator to import their slow Query log and perform analysis of that slow log.
Apcupsd
This plugin is to be used to track UPS status from the apcupsd daemon as well as SNMP enabled UPS. The apcupsd daemon is able to provide information on APC and other types of UPS' over various network typologies such as USB, Modbus, Ethernet, etc. We have added basic SNMP support in order to provide direct access to certain models over the SNMP protocol thus removing the need for an apcupsd host to provide the monitoring details as well.
WMI
The WMI Plugin provides data collection services for devices that support the WMI protocol. It operates asyncrhonously to the Cacti data collection and stores the resulting information into cache tables. These cache tables can then be used to generate graphs, thresholds and alerts. It relies on the 'wmic' command in Linux, and WMI services via Microsofts COM protocol from Windows Cacti servers.