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Cacti 0.8 Network Monitoring

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Cacti 0.8 Network Monitoring

Overview of this book

Cacti is a network monitoring tool that provides graphic solutions to your everyday monitoring issues. It has a wide variety of features and misusing them can mean that you are not monitoring your network as closely as you think. This book takes you through all of the key features of Cacti and shows how to use them for maximum effectiveness. This book will teach you how to use Cacti effectively to monitor your network through its web interface leaving aside all the heavy chunks of code. You will be introduced to all the features of Cacti in an easy-to-understand format. This book introduces Cacti and goes through its complete installation and setup. After a quick look, it will teach you to use Cacti's amazing graph templating and user management features. You will learn to customize graphs and make them better looking and easier to understand. It will teach you to provide the paths to any external script or command using Cacti. Then it will take you through importing and managing new templates and also customizing them. Creating users and assigning permissions to them is the next step in this book. Towards the end, you will learn to take backups and restore the system.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Adding a user in Cacti


Now, we will add a user in the Cacti system. It is a fairly easy process and does not take long. We will follow a simple procedure to add a user in the Cacti system. If you click on the Add link on the top right hand corner of the User Management screen, a new input form like the following will open to create a new user.

At this point, we will add a username and password and press the create button to create a user. We will not think about permissions and other options at this moment. In a production environment, the administrator assigns permissions while creating users. We are doing this to understand the user creation process clearly. For example, let's choose a user called westwing with the password abc123.

One thing a system administrator must remember while dealing with user accounts is that proper planning is very much necessary before creating user accounts. Cacti does not support groups at this moment. So, it is important to have an option to mass update users...