The new remote poller architecture of Cacti 1.x is essentially running a full Cacti in a remote location with a set of devices assigned and synced to it. The remote poller Cacti will go and poll devices, even in the case of an unreachable master server, and will report back the data to the master server to be added to the RRD files. The RRD files themselves only reside on the master Cacti system. As of November 2017, only a few plugins do support the remote poller concept. One of these is the Thold plugin.
Overview of the remote poller architecture
The master server
The master server contains all configuration data and adds the polled data to the RRD files. It is providing the user interface to the graphs to end-users. As...
