Preparing the system—basic prerequisites
Installing Cacti on a CentOS 5 system
Time for action – installing the missing packages
Time for action – downloading Cacti
Time for action – creating the database
Time for action – configuring Cacti
Time for action – creating the poller's cron entry and Cacti's system account
Time for action – installing Spine
Installing Cacti on a Windows system
Time for action – starting the Windows setup
Time for action – upgrading Cacti
Using Cacti for the first time
Time for action – configuring Cacti
The Cacti web interface explained
Using Graphs to Monitor Networks and Devices
An introduction to Cacti graphs and the RRDtool
Time for action – creating a new device in Cacti
Time for action – adding a host template to the device
Time for action – adding graphs to the device
Time for action – adding interface graphs to a device
Adding devices to the Cacti tree
Time for action – creating a Cacti tree
Time for action – adding a sub-tree
Time for action – adding a device to the Cacti tree
Time for action – defining a data template
Time for action – defining a CDEF in Cacti
Time for action – defining the graph template
Time for action – defining a graph template
Time for action – adding the color areas
Time for action – adding a legend
Time for action – defining a host template
Time for action – importing a template
Time for action – exporting a template
An introduction to Cacti user management
Time for action – creating the first Cacti user
Time for action – setting realm permissions
Time for action – setting graph permissions
Time for action – installing the missing packages
Time for action – the Batch Copy
Integrate LDAP/Active Directory authentication
Time for action – setting up Active Directory authentication
Managing users with the Cacti CLI
Time for action – importing users from the CLI
An introduction to Cacti data management
Time for action – creating a data input method – Step 1
Time for action – creating a data input method – Step 2
Time for action – creating a data query – Step 1
Time for action – creating a data query – Step 2
Create a remote SSH data input method
Time for action – create SSH keys with PuTTY Key Generator
Time for action – creating the data input method
An introduction to Cacti maintenance
Time for action – backup your Cacti database
Time for action – backup your Cacti files
Time for action – enhancing the backup script
Time for action – creating a cronjob
Time for action – restoring the Cacti database
Time for action – restoring all Cacti files
Time for action – restoring the Cacti config.php file
Time for action – configuring Logrotate
Time for action – finding orphaned RRD files
A short overview of the Cacti CLI functionality
An introduction to network and server monitoring
Time for action – set up SNMP on Cisco devices
Time for action – adding a Cisco switch to Cacti
Time for action – set up SNMP access on Cisco PIX
Time for action – adding a Cisco PIX Firewall to Cacti
Time for action – set up SNMP access on an ESXi 4 server
Time for action – set up SNMP access on an ESX 3.5 server
Time for action – adding a VMware ESX host to Cacti
Time for action – enabling the SNMP server feature
Time for action – configuring the Windows SNMP service
Time for action – setting up a Windows WMI user
Time for action – installing the CactiWMI add-on – Part 1
Time for action – installing the CactiWMI add-on – Part 2
Time for action – performance measurement with CactiWMI
Introduction to the Plugin Architecture
Installing the Plugin Architecture
Time for action – installing the Plugin Architecture
Upgrading the Plugin Architecture
Time for action – upgrading the Plugin Architecture
Configuring the Plugin Architecture
Time for action – configuring the Plugin Architecture
Downloading and installing plugins
Time for action – installing the settings plugin
Time for action – removing the settings plugin
Time for action – adding an external page to Cacti
Time for action – adding the realm permission functions
Time for action – adding additional fields to the host table
Time for action – retrieve data from the database
Time for action – presenting data on the tree view page
Time for action – deleting data
Time for action – sorting and retrieving data
Time for action – presenting the data
Time for action – retrieving data from the form post
Time for action – creating a new database item
Time for action – updating an existing item
Threshold Monitoring with Thold
Time for action – installing Thold
Time for action – give permission to a user
Time for action – creating your first threshold – Part 1
Time for action – creating your first threshold – Part 2
Time for action – installing the stress tool
Time for action – viewing breached thresholds
Time for action – creating your first threshold template
Time for action – assigning a threshold template
Overview of Nectar and CereusReporting
Time for action – installing Nectar
Time for action – create your first Nectar report
Time for action – adding report items
Time for action – installing CereusReporting
Time for action – configure CereusReporting
Time for action – creating an on-demand report
Time for action – creating a pre-defined report
Time for action – scheduling a pre-defined report
Time for action – Backup and Restore a pre-defined report
Report scheduling and polling performance
Time for action – setup of a cron-based report generation
Advanced reporting features of CereusReporting
Time for action – adding permissions to a user
Time for action – adding a Cacti tree
Time for action – adding a single device to Cacti
Autom8 – true Cacti automation
Time for action – installing the Autom8 plugin
Time for action – patching the Cacti files
Time for action – adding a new Tree Rule
Time for action – applying an Autom8 rule to devices
Time for action – adding a Graph Rule
Mobile Access / Administration
Mobile Access / Administration
Mobile Access / Administration
Mobile Access / Administration
Mobile Access / Administration
Mobile Access / Administration
Mobile Access / Administration
Mobile Access / Administration
Mobile Access / Administration
Mobile Access / Administration
Mobile Access / Administration
Mobile Access / Administration