Chapter 12. Cacti Automation for NOC

In a NOC environment, adding users and managing devices and graphs can become a time consuming job. With the availability of the Cacti CLI, most of these manual tasks can be automated, but selecting and creating meaningful graphs for devices still involves quite some effort. This chapter will show you how to use the CLI to automate device management and how to create rules for adding graphs to a device using the new Autom8 plugin.

In this chapter we are going to:

• Provide an overview of Cacti automation

• Describe the process of using the CLI to add permissions, devices, and trees

• Install and use Autom8

Let's automate Cacti!