Time for action – adding a Cacti tree

1. Logon to your Cacti system.

2. Change to the Cacti CLI directory:

   cd /var/www/html/cacti/cli
   

3. Execute the following command:

   php  add_tree.php
   

4. You will see the different options for this command:

   

5. As you can see you can add trees, hosts, or even single graphs to a tree or sub-tree. Let's add the localhost device to a tree. Use the following command to retrieve a list of hosts:

   php add_tree.php --list-hosts
   

6. Use the following command to get a list of existing trees:

   php add_tree.php --list-trees
   

7. Now get a list of the nodes from a tree:

   php add_tree.php --tree-id=2 --list-nodes
   

8. You will see a list of the existing nodes for that tree as shown in the following screenshot:

   

9. Now let's add the localhost device to Site A :

   php add_tree.php --type=node --node-type=host --tree-id=2 --parent-node=9 --host-id=1
   

10. This will add the localhost device (--host-id=1) to the Site A node ( --parent-node=9) under the Customer A tree (--tree-id=2).

11. You will see a confirmation once...