Automation - true Cacti automation

Using the capabilities of the CLI to add devices to Cacti, you can use automation to automatically create graphs for that device and add them to a Cacti tree.

Automation rules

Automation uses rules that are triggered by special events such as:

• Adding a new device to Cacti
• Re-indexing the device

Rules are based on any item of the hosts table, so you can use SNMP fields such as sysLocation for your rules!

Tree rules

Let's have a look at creating a tree rule using some SNMP fields.

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