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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

An introduction to Cacti data management

Cacti provides different methods for remote data query. You already learned about the data input methods for retrieving a single SNMP value, but this method is not limited to SNMP. You can use several other methods, such as scripts or the WMI, for retrieving and graphing data.

Data input methods

Data input methods are commonly used when it comes to basic data retrieval. They can be external scripts, simple SNMP queries, or anything that does not involve indexed data.

Data queries

Data queries are being used when it comes to indexed...

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