Time for action – creating your first threshold – Part 1
Logon to Cacti as the user you changed in the previous step.
Click on the Graphs tab and go to a host or graph.
On the right of the graphs, there are a number of small icons. Click on the one showing a small document with a checkmark in it, as seen in the following screenshot:
On the next page, select Create a new Threshold from the drop-down box and click on the go button as shown in the following screenshot:
On the next page, the Host and Graph drop-down boxes should already be filled in. Now select load_15min as the Data Source for which you want to create a threshold. The next image displays the information for the Localhost – Load Average graph:
Click on the Create button.
You'll now see a page where you can define the threshold for the specific data source you've selected. Let's stop here for a moment and look at this page in more detail.
The threshold creation page
The threshold creation page can be divided into three main parts:
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