Importing/exporting templates
As graph, host, and data templates become very complex and are most of the time, crafted to fit a specific device type, Cacti offers the ability to export and share these templates with the community, as well as importing existing templates.
This really eases the administrative tasks for creating these templates! So let's see how you can import and export these templates.
Importing templates
As Cacti comes with a limited set of templates, importing templates will probably be the first action you will take when trying to graph some special data.
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Templates on Cacti.net
A large number of Cacti templates can now be found at the documentation section of the Cacti website. You can find them on the following page:
As your Cacti installation is probably running on an Apache web server, you want to get and graph some additional information on it. So let's import such a template.
