Cacti Manual 0.8.7

Ian Berry

Tony Roman

Larry Adams

J.P. Pasnak

Jimmy Conner

Reinhard Scheck

Andreas Braun

• Installation
  • Requirements
  • Installing Under Unix
    • Required Packages for RPM-based Operating Systems
    • Ports for FreeBSD
    • Configuration of Software Packages
    • Distribution Specific Installation Instructions
    • Configure PHP
    • Configure the Webserver (Apache)
    • Configure MySQL
    • Setting Up SNMP
    • Getting Net-SNMP binaries
    • Building the Net-SNMP agent from source
    • Configuring the Net-SNMP agent
    • Test your configuration
    • Extending the SNMP Agent
    • Install and Configure Cacti
    • Start System Services
    • (Optional) Install and Configure Spine
    • Apply Patches
    • Ubuntu Installation Instructions
  • Installing Under Windows
    • Software Components Required
    • Configuration of Software Packages
    • Configure Security
    • Configure PHP
    • Configure the Webserver (Apache)
    • Configure the Webserver (IIS)
    • Install Cygwin (optional)
    • Install RRDTool
    • Install MySQL
    • Install Net-SNMP
    • Configure Cacti
    • Install Spine
    • Apply Patches
  • Upgrading Cacti
  • Installing the Plugin Architecture (PIA)
    • Download
    • Extract
    • Installing
    • Configuration
    • SQL
  • Installing Plugins
    • Installation of Legacy Plugins
    • Installation of PIA 2.x-Type Plugins
    • Managing Plugins
• Basics
  • Principles of Operation
    • Data Retrieval
    • Data Storage
    • Data Presentation
    • Graph Overview
  • My First Graph
    • Creating a New Device
    • Creating the Graphs
  • More Graphs
  • Using Graphs Tab
    • The Tree Mode
    • Creating a Graph Tree
    • The List Mode
    • The Preview Mode
  • User Management
• Templates
  • Why Templates?
  • Data Templates
    • Walkthrough: My First Data Template
  • Graph Templates
    • Walkthrough: My First Graph Template
  • Host Templates
    • Walkthrough: My First Host Template
  • Using Templates
    • Using a Host Template
    • Using Graph Templates
  • Template Import & Export
    • Import Templates
    • Export Templates
• Advanced Topics
  • • Common Tasks
  • Data Input Methods
    • Creating a Data Input Method
    • Data Input Fields
    • Making Your Scripts Work With Cacti
    • Walkthrough: My First Data Input Method
  • PHP Script Server
    • Using the PHP Script Server
    • Upgrade Steps for the Example HostMib Data Queries
    • Migration of Existing PHP Scripts to Script Server
    • Testing Your Script in the Script Server
  • Data Queries
    • Creating a Data Query
  • SNMP Data Queries
    • Walkthrough: A New SNMP Data Query
  • SNMP Data Query Walkthrough
    • Building Raw XML File
    • Insert all descriptive table columns
    • Getting the Output Values
    • Defining the Data Template
    • Defining the Graph Template
    • Revisiting The Data Query
    • Create Graphs for this Host
    • VALUE/REGEXP in Action
    • Script Query XML Syntax
  • Script Data Query Walkthrough
    • Basic Script
    • XML File
    • Completing the Script
    • The Complete XML File
    • See it at work!
    • Create the Data Template
    • Create the Graph Template
    • Associate Graph Template with Data Query
    • Creating the Images
  • Spine
• Help
  • FAQ
    • Using Cacti
    • General
    • Monitoring
    • Graphs
    • Windows Related
  • Debugging
    • Check Cacti Log File
    • Check Basic Data Gathering
    • Check Cacti's Poller
    • Check MySQL Update
    • Check RRD File Update
    • Check RRD File Ownership
    • Check RRD File Numbers
    • Check RRDTool Graph Statement
    • Miscellaneous
    • RPM Installation?
    • Not NaN, but 0 (zero) values?
  • Maintenance
    • Logrotate cacti.log
    • Daily MySQL Dump of the Cacti SQL Database using logrotate
    • Migrating RRD Files between Architectures
    • Migrating RRD Files between Architectures and Hosts
• Reference
  • RRDTool Specific Features
    • GPRINT Presets
  • CDEFs
    • Creating a CDEF
    • Special Data Source
    • Using Special Data Source
    • More CDEF Examples
  • Command Line Scripts
    • Rebuild Poller Cache
    • Re-Index Hosts
    • Empty Poller Output Table
    • Reapply Suggested Names to Graphs
    • Copy Local Cacti User
    • Add a New Device
    • Add a New Graph
    • Add Items to a Tree
    • Add Graph Permissions
  • Variables
    • Graph Variables
    • Host Variables
• Examples
  • Managing Graph Y-Axis
  • Using an Upper Limit
    • Data exceeds given Limit
    • Data exceeds given Limit, Capped
  • Graphing Data with a Small Standard Deviation
    • Using --alt-autoscale
    • Using --alt-autoscale and --alt-y-grid
• RRDTool
  • RRD Files
  • About Consolidation
    • Defining the 1. rrd file
    • Defining the 2. rrd file
    • Running the Perl Script
    • Discussing the results
    • Using with cacti
    • See the script working
  • Using Consolidation
    • Common view of Traffic Graph
    • See the MAXimum Data after Consolidation
    • Viewing Historical Data
    • Conclusion
  • Non Integer Values shown
  • "No Data Loss"
    • Basic Knowledge for understanding RRAs
    • Here we go!
    • Defining a new round robin archive (rra)
    • Define a new data template
    • Define a new graph template
    • Modify Data Query to add Graph Template
    • Finally: Create Graphs for this Host
    • Now, where's the trick?
    • Something to keep in mind
  • Resize RRD Files
  • Externally Updated RRDs
    • Get rrdtool info
    • Create the Data Template
    • Create the Graph Template
    • Prepare the Host
    • Creating the Data Sources
    • Create the new Graph
  • Change y-Axis Scaling
  • Database Design