Time for action – configure CereusReporting

1. Go to Configuration | Settings.

2. Select the NMID tab.

3. Enter Cacti Report as the Report Title.

4. Enter provided by your IT department in the Report Subtitle field.

5. Enter images/urban-software_logo.png as your Report Logo. The logo needs to be readable and writeable by your webserver and the Cacti user.

6. Check the Print Header/Footer to PDF box.

7. Enter the URL of your Cacti web interface to the Cacti Host/Server URL field.

8. Enter /usr/bin/php for your PHP binary path. On a Linux system, you can check where your PHP binary is by issuing the following command on the CLI:

   which php
   

9. Enter archive as the Archive Directory.

10. You can leave the rest of the settings as they are. Your settings should now look as shown in the following screenshot:

    

11. Click on the Save button.

What just happened?

You just defined the basic settings for the CereusReporting plugin.

Report generation

The CereusReporting plugin is able to create instant PDF reports from the graph tree view page...