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You're reading from Cacti Beginner's Guide Leverage Cacti to design a robust network operations center

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788299183

Length 420 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Cacti

Concepts

Networking

Author (1):

Thomas Urban

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Installing Cacti FREE CHAPTER

2. Using Graphs to Monitor Networks and Devices

3. Creating and Using Templates

4. User Management

5. Data Management

6. Cacti Maintenance

7. Network and Server Monitoring

8. Plugin Architecture

9. Plugins

10. Threshold Monitoring with Thold

11. Enterprise Reporting

12. Cacti Automation for NOC

13. Migrating Cacti to a New Server

14. Multiple Poller with Cacti

15. Online Resources

Cacti website

16. Further Information

17. Pop Quiz Answers

Where to get support?

There are several options for getting support for Cacti or the numerous add-ons and plugins.

Cacti forums

The Cacti forums are the primary source for support, finding solutions or getting add-ons and plugins. The Cacti community is very active, with most developers posting on the forums daily.

You will find helpful HowTos and lots of information on plugins, templates and monitoring different kinds of hosts.

You can find the Cacti forums at https://forums.cacti.net/.

Mailing list

The Cacti community also provides a mailing list which is mainly used...

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Authors (1)

Thomas Urban

Thomas Urban is the owner of Urban-Software.de, a software and consulting services company providing add-ons, plugins, and services for the Cacti Performance Monitoring systems. He has been in the consulting business for more than 5 years and has been creating web applications for over 20 years building reporting interfaces, network management software, asset management sites, and much more. He is a part of the Cacti community and is known as Phalek in the Cacti forums, where he is among the Top 10 contributors. He started writing the first Cacti Beginners Guide for Cacti 0.8 back in 2011. The second edition is his second official effort.

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