Chapter 7. Network and Server Monitoring

Let's now look at how you set up the different devices to be monitored by Cacti. In this chapter you'll learn how to set up some Cisco devices and prepare Windows systems to be monitored using WMI.

In this chapter we are going to:

• Provide a short overview of device monitoring

• Describe the setup of Cisco network devices

• Configure a VMware ESX server

• Prepare a Windows system for WMI monitoring

Let's start!