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Thomas Urban
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 – exporting a template


  1. Go to Import/Export and click on the Export Templates link.

  2. Select Host Template as the template type which you want to export.

  3. Select your host template, SNMP Enabled CentOS Server as the Host Template to Export.

  4. Leave the rest to their default values.

  5. Click on Export. You can now store the XML file on your desktop.

What just happened?

You have exported your first host template. The XML file contains all of the necessary information for the host template. This includes:

  • The host template itself

  • All graph templates

  • All data templates

  • All CDEFs needed (isYellow_45-50 and isGreen_0-45)

  • Everything else needed for the host template to work

When re-importing this XML file, Cacti will only create items that do not already exist.

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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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