Time for action – adding a Cisco switch to Cacti
Go to Management and click on Devices.
Click on the Add link in the top right corner.
Enter the hostname and description of your Cisco device.
Select Cisco Router as the Host Template.
Select Version 2 for the SNMP Version and enter the community name of your Cisco device.
Click on Save at the bottom.
What just happened?
You just added your newly configured Cisco device to Cacti. You can now go on and monitor the different network interfaces and other statistics available on the device.
Configuring SNMP access on a Cisco PIX firewall
Cisco PIX firewalls have some useful information on network performance and the number of connections in use on the firewall. The following commands will enable a PIX firewall to be polled from a specific host. Each host needs to be entered separately, as there's no range command available on the PIX firewall:
snmp-server host inside 10.27.0.181 snmp-server location EMEA/Germany/Kressbronn/FW/+1/ snmp-server contact...
