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Cacti Beginner's Guide

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788299183
Length 420 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Thomas Urban Thomas Urban
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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 16. Further Information 17. Pop Quiz Answers

Final configuration of the master poller

As you have seen in the screenshots, the master poller has its hostname set to localhost as well. While this does not have any negative effect on the functionality of the remote poller, it has an impact on setting up devices or using functionality like the real-time feature for viewing graphs.

For devices being polled from a remote poller, the master server will ask that remote poller to provide the required data. The remote poller then gathers the data and provides it to the master server using the hostname from the Data collectors table, which is still set to localhost. Obviously, the remote poller will therefore not be able to provide the data to the master server unless you change the hostname to the correct resolvable hostname as well.

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