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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 – creating a data query – Step 2


Now you're going to add one Associated Graph Template to this data query.

  1. Click on the Add link on the Associated Graph Templates table

  2. Enter In/Out Bits as the Name.

  3. Select Interface – Traffic (bits/sec) as the Graph Template. If you do not find the graph template you need, you will need to create one first.

  4. Click on the Create button. Several new tables will appear now:

  5. Select ifOutOctets (Bytes Out) for the traffic_out data source.

  6. Check both checkboxes from the Associated Data Templates table.

  7. Enter |host_description|- Traffic - |query_ifName| in the first field of the Data Template – Interface –Traffic section.

  8. Enter name as the Field Name and click the Add button next to it.

  9. Enter |query_ifSpeed| in the first field of the Data Template – Interface –Traffic section.

  10. Enter rrd_maximum as the Field Name and click on the Add button again. You will now have two entries in the first table:

  11. Now enter |host_description|- Traffic - |query_ifName| in the...

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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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