Time for action – adding a single device to Cacti

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_device.php
   

4. You will see a list of all available options. Here you can see a short summary of these:

   

5. Let's assume that you are using a global SNMP community which you have defined in the General section on the Cacti settings page. Then you can add a device using the following syntax:

   php add_device.php --ip="192.168.178.53" --description="myCLIDevice" --template=1
   

6. This will add a "Generic SNMP-enabled host" to Cacti as seen in the following image:

   

What just happened?

You just added a new device using the Cacti CLI. You can now build an import script for adding a list of devices into Cacti.

Importing a list of devices into Cacti

Let's now look at the import script. The following code is parsing a special import file containing the device description, IP, SNMP version, community, and host template:

$import_file = ...