Python for Cacti
In my early days, when I was working as a network engineer, we used the open source cross-platform Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_Router_Traffic_Grapher) tool to check the traffic load on network links. It was one of the first open source high-level network monitoring system that abstracted the details of SNMP, database, and HTML for network engineers. Then came Round-Robin Database Tool (RRDtool, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRDtool). In its first release in 1999, it was referred to as "MRTG done right". It had greatly improved the database and poller performance in the backend.
Released in 2001, Cacti (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacti_(software)) is an open source web-based network ...
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