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Published inMar 2011
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ISBN-139781849513920
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Thomas Urban
Thomas Urban
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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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Time for action – creating an on-demand report


Logon to your Cacti web interface.

  1. Click on the graphs tab. You should notice the new toolbar:

  2. Non-admin users will not see the Add to Report button and the drop-down box next to it.

  3. Select a host for which you want to generate a report.

  4. Click on the PDF icon to the far right. After a short time you should be presented with a download dialog. Please note the filename displayed there:

  5. When you select a host, the report name will always have the same format as shown in the previous picture. If you click on a sub-tree item and hit the Include Sub-Leafs box, the report name will have the name you entered on the settings page.

What just happened?

You just created your first instant PDF report using the CereusReporting plugin. The graphs included within the report show the exact timeframe which you selected in the Cacti tree view page. You are able to select single graphs by clicking on the small checkbox next to each graph, or create a report of a whole...

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Published in: Mar 2011Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849513920

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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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