Summary

During this chapter you have learned quite a lot about creating your own plugin.

Specifically, you have covered:

  • Installing and using the superlinks plugin
  • Creating a concept for a plugin
  • How to create the main setup.php file
  • How to present data
  • Adding a new web page for viewing a list of enhanced information items
  • Creating a web page for adding new enhanced information items

You should now be able to create your own personal Cacti plugins. In the next chapter, you're going to install and configure a threshold monitoring plugin to further enhance Cacti.

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