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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 – defining a data template


The hrSystemProcesses MIB provides information on the current number of running processes on a system supporting the host resource MIB. This MIB is a collection of system-specific data such as logged in users, disk space, installed software packages, and other valuable information which can be retrieved using SNMP.

  1. Log on to your Cacti system and go to Templates | Data Templates.

  2. Click on the Add link at the top-right of the list. This will open a new page where you can define your data template.

  3. Enter Host-Resource-Mib: Running Processes in the Name field.

  4. Enter |host_description| - Running Processes as the Name for the data source. The |host_description| text is a special Cacti variable which will be replaced with the actual host description of the device where this data template will be added. You can find a list of these Cacti variables at the following link: http://docs.cacti.net/manual:087:6_reference.variables#variables.

  5. Select Get SNMP Data as...

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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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