Cacti 0.8 Network Monitoring电子书

Cacti 0.8 Network Monitoring

Table of Contents

Cacti 0.8 Network Monitoring

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

Preface

What this book covers

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Cacti Overview

What is Cacti?

Why Cacti?

Cacti operation

Data retrieval

Data storage

Data presentation

Basic knowledge on Net-SNMP

Basic knowledge on RRDtool

How does the RRDTool work?

Summary

2. Prerequisites and Installing Cacti on Linux

Cacti's prerequisites

Installing Cacti prerequisites

Apache

PHP

MySQL

Net-SNMP

RRDTool

Installing Cacti

Installing Cacti using APT

RRDTool Binary Path

PHP Binary Path

snmpwalk Binary Path

snmpget Binary Path

snmpbulkwalk Binary Path

snmpgetnext Binary Path

Cacti Log File Path

SNMP Utility Version

RRDTool Utility Version

Installing Cacti from Source/Manual installation

Upgrading Cacti

Using APT

From source

Patch

Summary

3. Using Graphs to Manage Networks and Devices

Creating graphs

Adding a device

Device fields definition

SNMP support in Cacti

Creating a graph for the device

Organizing graphs

Summary

4. Creating and Using Templates

Types of Cacti templates

Graph templates

Creating a graph template

Graph Template Item

Graph Item Inputs

Host templates

Creating host templates

Using host templates

Importing templates

Exporting templates

Important templates

Summary

5. User Management

User Management console

Adding a user in Cacti

Editing a user

Realm permissions

Graph permissions

Graph settings

Other User Management options

Deleting users

Enabling and disabling users

Copying users

Batch copying

Summary

6. NET-SNMP

What is SNMP?

How SNMP works?

Management Information Bases (MIBs)

Comparison of SNMP versions and security

Net-SNMP

Basic Net-SNMP commands

Summary

7. Data Management

Data input method

Creating a data input method

Input fields

Output fields

Data queries

Creating a data query

Associated Graph Templates

SNMP query XML syntax

Script Query XML

Creating a graph for single SNMP OID

Summary

8. Cacti Management

Directory structure

Backup

File backup

Database backup

Restoring from a backup

Poller cache

Command Line Interface

Summary

Index