Summary

You learned a lot in this chapter about user management with in Cacti.

We covered:

• Creating a user—how to apply some basic settings to a user

• Groups—there are no user groups in Cacti

• Realm Permissions—how to give access to different parts of Cacti to a user

• Graph Permissions—how to give access to trees and graphs to a user and limit access to a single customer

• Template User—how to create a template user holding all realm and graph permissions for a specific set of users and how to use the batch copy method to apply permissions from a template user to other users

• LDAP Authentication—how to make Cacti use an external LDAP system for user authentication

• Managing users through the CLI – how to import a list of users through the CLI

Now that you have users on your system, it's time to give them more than just the standard Cacti graphs. In the next chapter, you are going to learn how to gather data from other systems. You will create your own scripts and retrieve remote data using ssh.