Chapter 3. Creating and Using Templates
Cacti provides a facility to create templates for data, graphs, and hosts. This chapter is going to explain how to create these templates and apply them to the devices.
This chapter is going to cover the following topics:
- An introduction to templates
- Defining a data template
- Defining a graph template
- Defining a host template
- Assigning a host template to a device
- Importing/exporting templates
- References to the template repository
So let's get started…
An introduction to templates
Cacti has templates which can be used to simplify the process of creating and administering graphs, as well as assigning them to specific types of hosts. There are three different types of templates: graph, host, and data.
Data templates
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