Cacti 0.8 Network Monitoring Table Of Contents

Table of Contents

• 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