What this book covers
Chapter 1, Installing Cacti, will take you through the installation and configuration of Cacti. You will also learn how to upgrade an existing installation. The final part of the chapter will get you familiar with the different features of Cacti.
Chapter 2, Using Graphs to Monitor Networks and Devices, will teach you how to create graphs using RRDtool. Cacti uses RRDtool to store the polled data. In addition to storing data, RRDtool is also used to create performance graphs. This chapter also shows you how to add new devices and performance measurement graphs to them. Then you'll learn how to group devices using the Cacti tree. Cacti provides a facility to create templates for data, graphs, and hosts.
Chapter 3, Creating ...
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