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Thomas Urban
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Thomas Urban is the owner of Urban-Software.de, a software and consulting services company providing add-ons, plugins, and services for the Cacti Performance Monitoring systems. He has been in the consulting business for more than 5 years and has been creating web applications for over 20 years building reporting interfaces, network management software, asset management sites, and much more. He is a part of the Cacti community and is known as Phalek in the Cacti forums, where he is among the Top 10 contributors. He started writing the first Cacti Beginners Guide for Cacti 0.8 back in 2011. The second edition is his second official effort.
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Configuring Thold


As with most complex plugins, Thold comes with its own configuration tab on the Cacti settings page. Let's look at the various options for Thold.

General options

The General settings area contains some very basic options. The following image shows their default values:

Most of these settings are self explanatory, but you may be wondering what the Base URL option is used for. By default, it should be pointing to the URL of your Cacti installation, based on what Thold thinks it is. This value will be used when a threshold alert is sent out as a link to the graph. You should check this URL to make sure it's accurate.

Default Alerting Options

The Default Alerting Options area lets you define syslog reporting as well as some exemptions and triggers. Look at the following screenshot showing the default values:

Default Emailing Options

The default Emailing Options section lets you define the appearance of alert emails as well as the generic content of these emails. Look at the following...

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Cacti 0.8 Beginner's Guide
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Thomas Urban

Thomas Urban is the owner of Urban-Software.de, a software and consulting services company providing add-ons, plugins, and services for the Cacti Performance Monitoring systems. He has been in the consulting business for more than 5 years and has been creating web applications for over 20 years building reporting interfaces, network management software, asset management sites, and much more. He is a part of the Cacti community and is known as Phalek in the Cacti forums, where he is among the Top 10 contributors. He started writing the first Cacti Beginners Guide for Cacti 0.8 back in 2011. The second edition is his second official effort.
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