Time for action – give permission to a user

1. Logon to Cacti as a user with administrative rights.

2. Click on the Console tab and go to Utilities | User Management.

3. Click on the user to whom you want to provide access, to the plugin.

4. Add an e-mail address for the user in the new Email Address field:

   

5. On the Realm Permissions tab, tick the checkbox next to Configure Threshold Templates, Configure Thresholds and View Thresholds as seen in the following screenshot:

   

6. Click on the Save button.

What just happened?

You just gave a user permission to create threshold templates, individual thresholds, and to view the thresholds within Cacti.

Creating a threshold

Thresholds can be set on a per data source basis, but this can be tedious in large environments so, thankfully, the plugin provides an easy way of creating thresholds using a shortcut icon on the graph view pages.