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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

Installing Thold


Lets start by installing the Thold plugin.

Downloading and installing Thold

Thold is not published on the cacti.net page, but is freely available from the common GitHub-based plugin page: https://github.com/Cacti/plugin_thold.

Time for action - installing Thold

The following steps will install the latest Thold version for Cacti 1.x

  1. Log on to you Cacti installation as root.
  2. Go to the new plugins directory:
cd /var/www/html/cacti/plugins
  1. Download the Thold plugin using the following command:
wget -O thold.zip https://github.com/Cacti/plugin_thold/archive/develop.zip
  1. Extract the archive:
unzip thold.zip
  1. Rename the directory to the correct name of thold:
mv plugin_thold-develop thold
  1. Log on to your Cacti web interface using a user with Plugin Management permissions.
  2. Go to Configuration -> Plugin Management.
  3. You should now be able to see the Thold plugin on the list of available plugins:
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You installed the Thold plugin, thereby enabling you to set thresholds on values of...

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