Cacti Appliance

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with hundreds of devices.

Main  Cacti Website -- http://cacti.net/

See the appliance in action -- thekernel.org Cacti Appliance running on Xen  

I put the Cacti Appliance  together after having to install the software on a linux server myself after fighting with the install to get it the way I wanted it.  I knew after all of the trouble I had that not just any user could download Cacti and get it installed easily so why not create a version that any user could download and run without any complicated setup.

To create the  Cacti Appliance  I used rBuilder Online by rPath they allowed me to simply package and spin a custom Linux distribution focused around the  Cacti application. Another really cool feature of rBuilder Online is it allows me to serve the image in many formats:

Xen
Microsoft (R) VHD Virtual Server
VMware (R) Virtual Appliance
VMware (R) ESX Server Virtual Appliance
Installable CD/DVD
Demo CD/DVD (Live CD/DVD)
Amazon Machine Image

This gives the end user the ability to choose what image type best fits for them.

Download Images from the rPath rBuilder project site : http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/cacti-appliance/

For Support with Cacti please see go to the main Cacti website -- http://docs.cacti.net /

For support with the Appliance you can email me here -- Cacti Appliance Email