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Cacti Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Cacti Beginner's Guide Leverage Cacti to design a robust network operations center

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788299183
Length 420 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Thomas Urban Thomas Urban
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing Cacti FREE CHAPTER 2. Using Graphs to Monitor Networks and Devices 3. Creating and Using Templates 4. User Management 5. Data Management 6. Cacti Maintenance 7. Network and Server Monitoring 8. Plugin Architecture 9. Plugins 10. Threshold Monitoring with Thold 11. Enterprise Reporting 12. Cacti Automation for NOC 13. Migrating Cacti to a New Server 14. Multiple Poller with Cacti 15. Online Resources 16. Further Information 17. Pop Quiz Answers

General User Settings


There are a few general settings which can be checked for each user. These settings include the Authentication Realm or access to the different Graph Options.

Graph Options

Graph Options are not related to any options for the actual graphs, but describe the type of view on the graphs that the user has access to. There are three different options available:

  • User Has Rights to Tree View
  • User Has Rights to List View
  • User Has Rights to Preview View

These views relate to the small tabs on the upper right of the Cacti screen when you are using the graphs tab:

Login Options

Login Options allow you to predefine the entry page of the user. Most of the time, you can leave this setting to the default option show the page that the user pointed their browser to, so external links sent by email will send them right to the graph or page for that link.

Authentication Realm

The Authentication Realm defines the type of access authentication used when a user logs in to Cacti. There are three different...

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