Cacti 0.8 Beginner's Guide

Summary

You should now be able to create your own data input methods and create custom scripts to gather remote data.

This chapter covered:

• Creating data input methods—how to gather data from the local Cacti system using a local script
• Creating data queries—creating the underlying XML file and gathering indexed data for displaying in Cacti
• The remote SSH data input method—how to retrieve and display data from a remote system using the SSH public key authentication method

Having covered the data management chapter, you should now be able to comfortably manage a Cacti system. In the next chapter, you're going to take a closer look into maintaining Cacti by scheduling backup jobs, maintaining log files, and more.