Cacti 0.8 Network Monitoring Table Of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Cacti Overview
Chapter 2: Prerequisites and Installing Cacti on Linux
Chapter 3: Using Graphs to Manage Networks and Devices
Chapter 4: Creating and Using Templates
Chapter 5: User Management
Chapter 6: NET-SNMP
Chapter 7: Data Management
Chapter 8: Cacti Management
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Cacti Overview
  • What is Cacti?
  • Why Cacti?
  • Cacti operation
    • Data retrieval
    • Data storage
    • Data presentation
  • Basic knowledge on Net-SNMP
  • Basic knowledge on RRDtool
    • How does the RRDTool work?
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Prerequisites and Installing Cacti on Linux
  • Cacti's prerequisites
    • Installing Cacti prerequisites
      • Apache
      • PHP
      • MySQL
      • Net-SNMP
      • RRDTool
  • Installing Cacti
    • Installing Cacti using APT
      • RRDTool Binary Path
      • PHP Binary Path
      • snmpwalk Binary Path
      • snmpget Binary Path
      • snmpbulkwalk Binary Path
      • snmpgetnext Binary Path
      • Cacti Log File Path
      • SNMP Utility Version
      • RRDTool Utility Version
    • Installing Cacti from Source/Manual installation
  • Upgrading Cacti
    • Using APT
    • From source
  • Patch
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Using Graphs to Manage Networks and Devices
  • Creating graphs
    • Adding a device
    • Device fields definition
  • SNMP support in Cacti
  • Creating a graph for the device
  • Organizing graphs
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Creating and Using Templates
  • Types of Cacti templates
    • Graph templates
      • Creating a graph template
      • Graph Item Inputs
    • Host templates
      • Creating host templates
      • Using host templates
    • Importing templates
    • Exporting templates
    • Important templates
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: User Management
  • User Management console
  • Adding a user in Cacti
  • Editing a user
    • Realm permissions
    • Graph permissions
    • Graph settings
  • Other User Management options
    • Deleting users
    • Enabling and disabling users
    • Copying users
    • Batch copying
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: NET-SNMP
  • What is SNMP?
  • How SNMP works?
  • Management Information Bases (MIBs)
  • Comparison of SNMP versions and security
  • Net-SNMP
  • Basic Net-SNMP commands
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Data Management
  • Data input method
    • Creating a data input method
      • Input fields
      • Output fields
  • Data queries
    • Creating a data query
      • Associated Graph Templates
  • SNMP query XML syntax
  • Script Query XML
  • Creating a graph for single SNMP OID
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Cacti Management
  • Directory structure
  • Backup
    • File backup
      • Database backup
  • Restoring from a backup
  • Poller cache
  • Command Line Interface
  • Summary

• Index

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