Summary
You now have several guides at hand to configure your network devices, Windows servers, and VMware ESX servers. Each of the different systems requires different methods and configuration tasks in order to poll the performance data.
Specifically, you have covered:
How to configure Cisco-based network and firewall devices to allow SNMP polling from Cacti
Setting up and enabling the SNMP daemon on VMware ESX 3.5 and ESXi 4 servers
How to create a WMI capable user on Windows and how to give this user enough permissions to poll WMI remotely
How to install and configure the CactiWMI add-on to poll WMI of Windows systems from a Linux based Cacti system
You should now be able to extend your performance polling to a much broader range of systems including Windows servers and VMware ESX systems. In the next chapter, you're going to enhance Cacti by installing the Plugin Architecture. You are also going to install your first plugins.
