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Contents

Introduction.............................................................................5

Logging into Cacti.....................................................................5

Creating Devices ......................................................................6

Creating Graphs .......................................................................9

Working with Graph Trees......................................................10

Viewing Graphs ......................................................................11

Resources...............................................................................13


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After you login, the following page of the Cacti application screen appears.The console tab of Cacti is selected first (as shown in red at the top of the

Cacti application screen). To navigate to other pages in the console tab, youclick the links in the left panel of the Cacti screen (for example, Devices).

Later in this tutorial you will learn about the graphs tab.

Creating Devices

The first step in using Cacti is to create device entries for each networkdevice that contains the data you want to retrieve and graph. For each

device, you must specify information such as the network hostname, SNMPparameters, and host type. For example, you might create a device entry for

a file server.

To create a device:

1. Click the Devices link in the left panel of the Cacti console screen.2. Click the Add link in the upper right corner of the Cacti screen.


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3. For Description, enter information to identify the device, such as FileServer.

4. For Hostname, enter a fully-qualified hostname or IP address, such ashost.xyzcompany.com.

5. Choose a template for your device from the Host Template drop-downmenu to fill in the default settings for a device automatically. Forexample, choose Local Linux Machine.

Tip: The templates shown in the Host Template menu are specific to the

Click2try site, but you can also create templates later for your networkwhen you install Cacti at your site. If you dont choose a template, you

can enter settings for the device manually in the other fields on this page.


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6. Click create.Your device settings are now shown in the following page. If you chose

Ping in the Downed Device Detection drop-down menu, the result of

the Ping command is shown at the upper left section of the page. If youchose a host template, the Associated Graph Templates and

Associated Data Queries sections will be shown at the bottom of thepage.

Note: Since the hostname you specified will not work on the Click2trysite, the Ping command will fail and the graphs in the Associated GraphTemplates section will not be generated. This procedure is intended only

to illustrate the steps for creating a device.


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Creating Graphs

After creating entries for devices on your network, you can create graphs of

the data collected from the devices. This section describes how to create a

graph for the Localhost device entry already configured and operational onthe Click2try site.

To create a graph:

1. Click the New Graphs link in the left panel of the Cacti console screen.2. Choose Localhost (127.0.0.1) from the Host drop-down menu.

3. Choose Unix Ping Latency from the Create drop-down menu in theGraph Templates section.

4. Click create.5. In the next page, choose a legend color, enter text you want to display in

the legend for the graph and then click create.

The new graph is now available for use.


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The Parent Item at the top of the following page is specified as [root]because this tree item is at the root of the graph tree hierarchy. (If this

tree item were within a branch, you could choose a parent item.)

2. For Tree Item Type, choose Graph to specify that this graph tree item isfor a device.

3. For Graph, choose Localhost Ping Latency. (This is a sample graphthat is predefined on the click2try site.)

4. Click create.The new Localhost tree item now appears in the Tree Items section.

Viewing Graphs

Next, you are ready to view the graph you created.

To view a graph:

1. Click the Graphs tab at the top of the Cacti screen. It turns red toindicate it is selected.


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The My Localhost Graphs graph tree that you created is listed in the leftpanel below the Default Tree graph tree.

2. Click the My Localhost Graphs link in the left panel.The Localhost Ping Latency graph that you added earlier to the My

Localhost Graphs graph tree appears.


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Resources

For more information about Cacti, see the following resources:

Cacti Main Sitehttp://www.cacti.net This is the main web site for Cactiwhere you can download the latest versions and access more resources andinformation about Cacti.

Cacti Documentationhttp://http://www.cacti.net/documentation.php Thissite has links to the Cacti Manual which contains for details about using Cacti.

You can also download Cacti installation guides from this site.

Cacti Forumshttp://http://forums.cacti.net/ The Cacti user forum can help

you can get answers to questions about Cacti from other users.

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