Cacti 0.8 Beginner's Guide
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Cacti 0.8 Beginner's Guide

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About This Book

In Detail

Cacti is a performance measurement tool that provides easy methods and functions for gathering and graphing system data. You can use Cacti to develop a robust event management system that can alert on just about anything you would like it to. But to do that, you need to gain a solid understanding of the basics of Cacti, its plugin architecture, and automation concepts.

Cacti 0.8 Beginner's Guide will introduce you to the wide variety of features of Cacti and will guide you on how to use them for maximum effectiveness. Advanced topics like the plugin architecture and Cacti automation using the command-line interface will help you build a professional performance measurement system.

Designed as a beginner's guide, the book starts off with the basics of installing and using Cacti, and also covers the advanced topics that will show you how to customize and extend the core Cacti functionalities. The book offers essential tutorials for creating advanced graphs and using plugins to create enterprise-class reports to show your customers and colleagues.

From data templates to input methods and plugin installation to creating your own customized plugins, this book provides you with a rich selection of step-by-step instructions to reach your goals. It covers all you need to know to implement professional performance measurement techniques with Cacti and ways to fully customize Cacti to fit your needs.

By the end of the book, you will be able to implement and extend Cacti to monitor, display, and report the performance of your network exactly the way you want.

A comprehensive guide to learning Cacti and using it to implement performance measurement and reporting within a Network Operations Center

Approach

Written for beginners to Cacti, this book contains step-by-step instructions and hands-on tutorials for network operators to learn how to implement and use the core Cacti functions. The book is designed in such a way that you can explore it chapter-by-chapter or skip any chapter without missing a beat.

Who this book is for

If you are a network operator and want to use Cacti for implementing performance measurement for trending, troubleshooting, and reporting purposes, then this book is for you. You only need to know the basics of network management and SNMP.

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Publisher
Packt Publishing
Year
2011
ISBN
9781849513920
Edition
1
Topic
Informatik
Subtopic
Computernetzwerke

Cacti 0.8Beginner's Guide

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Cacti 0.8Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
Why Subscribe?
Free Access for Packt account holders
Preface
What is Cacti?
System architecture of Cacti
Cacti is more than performance measurement
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Time for action – heading
What just happened?
Pop quiz – heading
Have a go hero – heading
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Installing Cacti
Preparing the system—basic prerequisites
Web server
PHP
MySQL database
NET-SNMP package
Installing Cacti on a CentOS 5 system
Preparing the system
Time for action – installing the missing packages
What just happened?
Downloading and extracting Cacti
Time for action – downloading Cacti
What just happened?
Creating the database
Time for action – creating the database
What just happened?
Configuring Cacti
Time for action – configuring Cacti
What just happened?
Creating the poller cron entry and Cacti's system user
Time for action – creating the poller's cron entry and Cacti's system account
What just happened?
Installing the Spine poller
Time for action – installing Spine
What just happened?
Differences between source and APT/Yum installations
Have a go hero – remote server for database hosting
Installing Cacti on a Windows system
The community-built Windows Installer
Time for action – starting the Windows setup
What just happened?
Installing the Spine poller under Windows
Upgrading Cacti
Time for action – upgrading Cacti
What just happened?
Using Cacti for the first time
Time for action – configuring Cacti
What just happened?
The Cacti web interface explained
The Console tab
Create section
Management section
Collection methods section
Templates section
Import/export section
Configuration section
Utilities section
The Graphs tab
Before we continue
Pop quiz – a few questions about Chapter 1
Summary
2. Using Graphs to Monitor Networks and Devices
An introduction to Cacti graphs and the RRDtool
Creating graphs with the RRDtool
Basic RRDtool graph creation
Advanced RRDtool graph creation
Adding a label and title to the graph
Adding a legend to the graph
Adding a threshold line to the graph
Adding threshold breaches to the graph
Further reading
Have a go hero – creating a yellow warning area
Adding devices to Cacti
Creating a device
Time for action – creating a new device in Cacti
What just happened?
Selecting host templates for the device
Time for action – adding a host template to the device
What just happened?
Adding graphs to the device
Time for action – adding graphs to the device
What just happened?
Adding interface graphs to a device
Time for action – adding interface graphs to a device
What just happened?
Adding devices to the Cacti tree
Creating a tree
Time for action – creating a Cacti tree
What just happened?
Sub-tree items
Time for action – adding a sub-tree
What just happened?
Adding a device to the tree
Time for action – adding a device to the Cacti tree
What just happened?
Before we continue
Pop quiz – a few questions about Chapter 2
Summary
3. Creating and Using Templates
An introduction to templates
Data templates
Data input methods
Graph templates
Host templates
Data queries
Defining a data template
Time for action – defining a data template
What just happened?
Have a go hero – template for currently established TCP connections
Defining a graph template
CDEF definition
Time for action – defining a CDEF in Cacti
What just happened?
Defining the graph template
Time for action – defining the graph template
What just happened?
Adding the threshold line
Time for action – defining a gr...

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