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diff --git a/net-mgmt/cacti/pkg-descr b/net-mgmt/cacti/pkg-descr index b17fbc17b3d2..fe8fa4325341 100644 --- a/net-mgmt/cacti/pkg-descr +++ b/net-mgmt/cacti/pkg-descr @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ -One drawback to RRDTool, is that by itself it is not a complete package for -users wanting to graph their own networks. This is where cacti's job comes -in. Cacti brings the power of RRDTool to a friendly web interface making it -easy to graph anything using RRDTool. +Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool, it stores all of the necessary +information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. +The frontend is completely PHP driven. Along with being able to maintain +Graphs, Data Sources, and Round Robin Archives in a database, cacti handles +the data gathering. There is also SNMP support for those used to creating +traffic graphs with MRTG. -WWW: http://www.raxnet.net/products/cacti/ +WWW: http://www.cacti.net |