Time for action – viewing breached thresholds

1. Logon to Cacti as a user with View Thresholds permissions.

2. You should be presented with a page listing all threshold breaches like the one shown in the following screenshot:

   

3. Click on the second button with the red background and the white circle in it to disable the threshold:

   

4. Click on the green button to enable it again:

   

5. You can edit the threshold by clicking on the first icon, or view the graph for the threshold by clicking on the last icon.

What just happened?

You just looked at the threshold page which is available to all users with View Thresholds permissions. Depending on the other permissions you have, not all icons will appear.

Creating threshold templates

Now that you have created a single threshold, let's look into creating a threshold template with baseline support for the average load threshold.