Creating graphs

If you are familiar with RRDTool, then you know Cacti is designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. If you are not, don't worry—Cacti will create graphs without extensive configuration input from users. Built-in graph templates will make your life easier, so it is not necessary to understand the functionality of each field to create graphs for network-attached devices. Each graph stores different sets of parameters that control different aspects of each graph. If you want to know more about RRDTool, please visit http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/.

At the time of creating graphs, you will face a bit of a stiff learning curve. Stay on course, it will be over soon and you will be able to create graphs for different devices very quickly. As we discussed in the previous chapters, Cacti can create graphs for any SNMP-enabled, network-attached devices. This can be a switch, router, server, desktop computer, printer, IPS, UPS, and so on. Initially...