Summary
You now have several guides at hand to configure your network devices, Windows servers, and VMware ESX servers. Each of the different systems requires different methods and configuration tasks in order to poll the performance data.
Specifically, you have covered:
- How to configure Cisco-based network and firewall devices to allow SNMP polling from Cacti
- Setting up and enabling the SNMP daemon on VMware ESX 3.5 and ESXi 4 servers
- How to create a WMI capable user on Windows and how to give this user enough permissions to poll WMI remotely
- How to install and configure the CactiWMI add-on to poll WMI of Windows systems from a Linux based Cacti system
You should now be able to extend your performance polling to a much broader range of systems including ...
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