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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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Adding devices to the Cacti tree


The Cacti tree lists sub-trees, hosts, and graphs in a tree-like interface. It is the main user interface for the Graphs tab. There can be more than one tree which allows for a granular definition of the tree structure.

Note

Before creating the Cacti tree, think about a good structure for it. Changing the tree later is going to involve quite some manual work, so it is better to have this set up correctly beforehand, so it is better to have this set up correctly beforehand.

Creating a tree

Cacti already has a default tree defined which holds the localhost. You are going to leave this default tree empty and create your very own tree.

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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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