I'm gonna check out grafana, it looks significantly slicker than Cacti.
I ended up with a significantly more complex home network than I ever expected -
2 48 Port HPE 1820's
1 24 Port PoE HPE 1820's
All of these are linked with 2 1 GBE links in Port Channel
TP-Link Managed Wifi AP's with controller (I wanted roaming support, and PoE support)
Mikrotik HEx Router also linked in Port Channel to one of the core switches (I'd like to get multiple bonds set up, thats the intent, but I've had trouble making it play nice with rSTP - I think its an issue with my MikroTik Config, but its so poorly documented, its hard to say)
For places where I have lots of port needs where I was unable to pull a ton of cable -
3 24 Port HPE 1810's (2 of these connect back to the Core Switches with port-channels)
1 8 Port HPE 1810 (PoE powered)
The 1810/1820's are great, because they do not have cloud management, are fanless (PoE notwithstanding), and are easy to configure (no weird specific CLI to learn/no poorly implemented copy of Cisco IOS UI) via a web interface. Their lack of 10g support is annoying, but also worth the price savings.
From a VLAN perspective, I have six - one for my external netblock (which is just a pass thru from the cable gateway), and another for my internal LAN, plus two additional VLAN's for my home work lab, and another two for 'utility' which is to say, I built them in, but have not found a use for them yet ;-)
There is also a cacti server in a VM, I need to rebuilt it eventually so I have better instrumentation.
I'm gonna check out grafana, it looks significantly slicker than Cacti.
I ended up with a significantly more complex home network than I ever expected -
2 48 Port HPE 1820's 1 24 Port PoE HPE 1820's
All of these are linked with 2 1 GBE links in Port Channel
TP-Link Managed Wifi AP's with controller (I wanted roaming support, and PoE support)
Mikrotik HEx Router also linked in Port Channel to one of the core switches (I'd like to get multiple bonds set up, thats the intent, but I've had trouble making it play nice with rSTP - I think its an issue with my MikroTik Config, but its so poorly documented, its hard to say)
For places where I have lots of port needs where I was unable to pull a ton of cable -
3 24 Port HPE 1810's (2 of these connect back to the Core Switches with port-channels) 1 8 Port HPE 1810 (PoE powered)
The 1810/1820's are great, because they do not have cloud management, are fanless (PoE notwithstanding), and are easy to configure (no weird specific CLI to learn/no poorly implemented copy of Cisco IOS UI) via a web interface. Their lack of 10g support is annoying, but also worth the price savings.
From a VLAN perspective, I have six - one for my external netblock (which is just a pass thru from the cable gateway), and another for my internal LAN, plus two additional VLAN's for my home work lab, and another two for 'utility' which is to say, I built them in, but have not found a use for them yet ;-)
There is also a cacti server in a VM, I need to rebuilt it eventually so I have better instrumentation.