Time for action – assigning a threshold template
Logon to Cacti as a user with administrative rights.
Go to the Console tab and click on Thresholds under the Management section.
You should see a table with all your currently defined thresholds as shown in the following screenshot:
Check the checkbox to the right of the Load Average threshold.
Choose Delete from the drop-down box at the bottom and click on the Go button. This will make sure that this threshold does not exist any more, as existing thresholds cannot be migrated to ones based on a template.
Click on the graphs tab and select the host where you created the Load Average threshold earlier.
Click on the Create Threshold icon next to the Load Average graph.
From the following screen, select the Unix – Load Average [load_15min] template as seen in the following screenshot:
Click on yes to save your selection.
Go to the Console tab an click on Thresholds under the Management section.
Change the State to Any at the top of the page.
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