On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 11:33 +0100, Falk Brockerhoff - smartTERRA GmbH wrote: > Am 04.03.2009 um 11:23 schrieb Lars Noodin: > > > It's probably simplest to start with pftop. > > After a first quick look pftop is a great tool for debugging und > manually monitoring firewall activity. But it seems that I really > can't use it for a data source collector for cacti, can I? > > > Or do you want visualization? > > http://www.openbsd.org/4.4_packages/i386/pfstat-2.3p0.tgz-long.html > > Yes, but I want to use cacti for visualization as I use it for > anything else :)
you can still use 'extend's in (net-)snmpd.conf that use pfctl to gain some numbers, like "states created" and such. One can then create SNMP OID based graphs in cacti.