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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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Time for action – adding a legend


  1. The graph is still missing the Legend, so click on the Add link of the Graph Template Items again.

  2. Select Comment as the Graph Item Type.

  3. Enter Running Processes into the Text Format field.

  4. Click on the Create button.

  5. Let's add some more statistical information to your Legend. Click on the Add link.

  6. Select Legend as the Graph Item Type.

  7. Click on the Create button.

What just happened?

You have added a comment describing the statistical information relating to the graph. The Legend command adds three GPRINT statements to the graph. The first GPRINT statement prints the last polled value, the second statement prints the average value of the displayed graph and the last one prints the maximum value polled.

You can now assign this graph template to a device. After you have added the graph template to a device, you need to wait for three polls to pass. The first poll actually creates the necessary RRD file. The other two polls are needed for the RRDtool as it will start...

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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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