Cacti 0.8 Beginner's Guide

Summary

You have learned quite a lot about thresholds, baselines, and other parts of the Thold plugin.

Specifically, you have covered:

• Installing and configuring the Thold plugin
• Creating a threshold via the graph view page
• The differences between the three threshold types
• Creating a baseline based threshold template
• How to assign this template to a data source

You should now be able to create a set of thresholds and templates to monitor your network and receive alerts when performance issues occur. In the next chapter, you're going to learn how to create reports containing specific Cacti graphs and how to send them to your customers using scheduled e-mail.