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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788299183

Length 420 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Cacti

Concepts

Networking

Author (1):

Thomas Urban

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

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

Cacti website

16. Further Information

17. Pop Quiz Answers

Summary

You now have several guides at hand to configure your network devices, Windows servers and VMware ESX servers. Each of the different systems requires different methods and configuration tasks in order to poll the performance data.

Using the topics from this chapter, you are now able to configure Cisco based network and firewall devices to allow SNMP polling from Cacti. You have also learned how to set up and enable the SNMP daemon on VMware ESX 6/6.5 servers and looked into enabling the WMI polling feature for Windows servers.

You should now be able to extend your performance polling to a much broader range of systems including Windows servers and VMware ESX systems.

In the next chapter, you will be looking into the integrated Plugin Architecture of Cacti and how to install and configure new plugins.

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Authors (1)

Thomas Urban

Thomas Urban

Thomas Urban is the owner of Urban-Software.de, a software and consulting services company providing add-ons, plugins, and services for the Cacti Performance Monitoring systems. He has been in the consulting business for more than 5 years and has been creating web applications for over 20 years building reporting interfaces, network management software, asset management sites, and much more. He is a part of the Cacti community and is known as Phalek in the Cacti forums, where he is among the Top 10 contributors. He started writing the first Cacti Beginners Guide for Cacti 0.8 back in 2011. The second edition is his second official effort.

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