/cacti-pf-labels

Graph PF labels with cacti

Graph traffic on OpenBSD PF labels with cacti

  • Configure and run SNMP on the OpenBSD system, the default configuration is enough, if you are running this on an internal secure network, the included default snmpd.conf is everything you need

  • Put pf-labels.xml somewhere on your file system so that it is accessible by everyone (including nobody-like accounts)

  • Open the Cacti admin console, go to Data Collection / Data Queries, click + to create a new one

    Fill Name, Description, XML Path is the path to pf-labels.xml, set Data Input Method to Get SNMP Data (Indexed)

  • Edit your new data query and Associated Graph Templates, select Interface - Traffic (bytes/sec)

    Set the first data source traffic_in to pfLabelInBytes, the second one traffic_out to pfLabelOutBytes, leave the rest empty

  • Go to your host in Management / Devices and select it At the very bottom you will have an Associated Data Queries section, select Add Data Query with the PF Labels data query

    You will have the option to run it in verbose method to check if everything works as expected

    If it does, you should see as many elements as you have PF labels

  • Go to Create / New Graphs and select your host

    The PF labels should be listed in Data Query, select the graphs and add them

    You can use |host_description| - |query_pfLabel| - Traffic as title to get the label in the title