diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 793cb8b9..2eb5540c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ ver. 0.7.7 (2007/??/??)
 - Call Python interpreter directly (instead of using "env")
 - Added file support to fail2ban-regex. Benchmark feature has
   been removed
+- Added cacti script and template.
 
 ver. 0.7.6 (2007/01/04) - beta
 ----------
diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index 2a71efd5..209a64a0 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -90,3 +90,4 @@ man/fail2ban-regex.h2m
 man/generate-man
 files/gentoo-initd
 files/redhat-initd
+files/cacti/fail2ban_stats.sh
diff --git a/files/cacti/fail2ban_stats.sh b/files/cacti/fail2ban_stats.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..afe52466
--- /dev/null
+++ b/files/cacti/fail2ban_stats.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# This file is part of Fail2Ban.
+#
+# Fail2Ban is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Fail2Ban is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Fail2Ban; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+#
+# This script can be used to collect data for Cacti. One parameter is needed,
+# the jail name. It must be a currently running jail. The script returns two
+# value: the number of failures and the number of banned host.
+#
+# If Fail2ban is not available in the path, you can change the value of the
+# variable FAIL2BAN below.. You can add option to this variable too. Please
+# look at the man page of fail2ban-client for more information.
+#
+# Author: Cyril Jaquier
+# 
+# $Revision$
+
+FAIL2BAN="fail2ban-client"
+
+JAIL=$1
+
+if [ -z $JAIL ]; then
+	echo "Usage:" `basename $0` "<jail>"
+	exit
+fi
+
+IFS=""
+
+STATS=$($FAIL2BAN status $JAIL)
+
+TOTAL_FAILED=$(echo $STATS | grep "Total failed:" | awk '{ print $5 }')
+TOTAL_BANNED=$(echo $STATS | grep "Total banned:" | awk '{ print $4 }')
+
+echo "failed:"$TOTAL_FAILED "banned:"$TOTAL_BANNED
+