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.