Cacti 0.8 Network Monitoring. Monitor your network with ease!

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Cacti is a network monitoring tool that provides graphic solutions to your everyday monitoring issues. It has a wide variety of features and misusing them can mean that you are not monitoring your network as closely as you think. This book takes you through all of the key features of Cacti and shows how to use them for maximum effectiveness.This book will teach you how to use Cacti effectively to monitor your network through its web interface leaving aside all the heavy chunks of code. You will be introduced to all the features of Cacti in an easy-to-understand format. This book introduces Cacti and goes through its complete installation and setup. After a quick look, it will teach you to use Cacti's amazing graph templating and user management features. You will learn to customize graphs and make them better looking and easier to understand. It will teach you to provide the paths to any external script or command using Cacti. Then it will take you through importing and managing new templates and also customizing them. Creating users and assigning permissions to them is the next step in this book. Towards the end, you will learn to take backups and restore the system. Spis treści:
Cacti 0.8 Network Monitoring
Table of Contents
Cacti 0.8 Network Monitoring
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface
What this book covers
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Cacti Overview
What is Cacti?
Why Cacti?
Cacti operation
Data (...) więcej retrieval
Data storage
Data presentation
Basic knowledge on Net-SNMP
Basic knowledge on RRDtool
How does the RRDTool work?
Summary
2. Prerequisites and Installing Cacti on Linux
Cactis prerequisites
Installing Cacti prerequisites
Apache
PHP
MySQL
Net-SNMP
RRDTool
Installing Cacti
Installing Cacti using APT
RRDTool Binary Path
PHP Binary Path
snmpwalk Binary Path
snmpget Binary Path
snmpbulkwalk Binary Path
snmpgetnext Binary Path
Cacti Log File Path
SNMP Utility Version
RRDTool Utility Version
Installing Cacti from Source/Manual installation
Upgrading Cacti
Using APT
From source
Patch
Summary
3. Using Graphs to Manage Networks and Devices
Creating graphs
Adding a device
Device fields definition
SNMP support in Cacti
Creating a graph for the device
Organizing graphs
Summary
4. Creating and Using Templates
Types of Cacti templates
Graph templates
Creating a graph template
Graph Template Item
Graph Item Inputs
Host templates
Creating host templates
Using host templates
Importing templates
Exporting templates
Important templates
Summary
5. User Management
User Management console
Adding a user in Cacti
Editing a user
Realm permissions
Graph permissions
Graph settings
Other User Management options
Deleting users
Enabling and disabling users
Copying users
Batch copying
Summary
6. NET-SNMP
What is SNMP?
How SNMP works?
Management Information Bases (MIBs)
Comparison of SNMP versions and security
Net-SNMP
Basic Net-SNMP commands
Summary
7. Data Management
Data input method
Creating a data input method
Input fields
Output fields
Data queries
Creating a data query
Associated Graph Templates
SNMP query XML syntax
Script Query XML
Creating a graph for single SNMP OID
Summary
8. Cacti Management
Directory structure
Backup
File backup
Database backup
Restoring from a backup
Poller cache
Command Line Interface
Summary
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