Question

Name a utility required by a data center. What events might occur to interrupt this utility?

Answer 1

Cacti is the most recommended utility required by data centers. Cacti is a tool for providing real-time graphing and visual cues about the performance of a data center. Cacti’s front end is linked to the monitoring tool called RRD tool, which is used to collect data from SQL servers and other components. All such data collected via this Cacti utility is stored in MySQL database. Thus this setup is very useful for managers to monitor the performance, temperature, overloads in servers, and other relevant aspects. The structure is tree shape which helps to user specific reports.

Limitations- The tool has the capability to work in specific scenarios such as data centers running RRD tool with a SQL database. Cacti could not access proprietary server and network architectures.