This standalone PHP application collects data from Cacti. It synchronizes device and interface information with an iTop instance using Synchronization Data Sources.
- Collects NetworkDevice information along with Model, IOSVersion and PhysicalInterface.
- If enabled, also collects IPv4Address for the device it's management IP.
- Connects to the iTop REST interface
- Cacti > 0.8.8
- iTop > 2.3
- TeemIp standalone or as iTop extension.
This application needs to be installed on the same server where Cacti is installed. This is needed as it will run a Cacti cli script and will retrieve some SNMP data from the network devices.
Create an empty configuration file at conf/params.local.xml and adapt the settings to connect to your iTop instance and Cacti DB.
To get the default configuration, run the following command:
php exec.php --dump_config_only
You can find information about the several configuration items in the files conf/params.distrib.xml and collectors/params.distrib.xml.
The first time the collector is run, the following command is recommended:
php exec.php --configure_only
This will create the Synchronization Data Sources if they don't already exist.
To collect the data without synchronizing with iTop, run:
php exec.php --collect_only
This will store the collected data in CSV files in the data/ subdirectory of the collector - this is useful for checking the data before it is passed over to iTop. Mapped values can be checked and mapping tables updated - however, note that collection should be run again after such changes.
Finally, to perform iTop synchronization with the data collected:
php exec.php --synchro_only
Data collection and synchronization (and data source update/creation if necessary) can be performed in a single step if desired:
php exec.php
While this is simpler, it affords less control over the synchronization process.
More information on running the collector may be found on the itop-data-collector-base page.