Time for action – creating a data query – Step 1

  1. Go to Collection Methods | Data Queries and click on the Add link which is to the top right.
  2. Enter SNMP - Interface Statistics Simple as the Name.
  3. Enter Simple ( In/OutOctets ) Interface Statistics as the Description.
  4. Enter <path_cacti>/resource/snmp_queries/interface_book.xml as the XML Path.
  5. Select Get SNMP Data (Indexed) as Data Input Method.
  6. Click on the Save button.
    Time for action – creating a data query – Step 1

What just happened?

You just told Cacti where to find the XML file which you created earlier and what data input method to use for retrieving the data. You can now add one or more graph templates to this query.

During the next step you're ...

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