Mia Manarote Ohh here. Ickler // In my recent post, we installed and got Cacti up and running. Now, we’re going to add our first switch into Cacti’s services. Switch: This is an. Anyone interested in trying to get a template together for Cacti to pull statistics for the A series switch set? I am very green to Cacti and mibs, but I've pulled.

Table of Contents The real strength of Cacti is unleashed by using templates. There are three different types of templates with the basic Cacti installation: Data Templates, Graph Templates and Host Templates. While it is perfectly fine to define all data sources and graphs without using Templates at all, the burden of this approach is high. In most installations, there are lots of devices of the same kind.

X800 Soft Reset on this page. And there are lots of data of the same kind, e.g. Traffic information is needed for almost every device. Therefor, the parameters needed to create a traffic rrd file are defined by a Data Template, in this case known as 'Interface - Traffic'. These definitions are used by all Traffic-related rrd files.

The same approach is used for defining Graph Templates. This is done only once. And all parameters defined within such a Graph Template are copied to all Graphs that are created using this Template. The last type of Templates are the Host Templates. They are not related to some rrdtool stuff. The purpose of Host Templates is to group all Graph Templates and Data Queries (these are explained later) for a given device type. So you will make up a Host Template e.g.

For a specific type of router, switch, host and the like. By assigning the correct Host Template to each new Device, you'll never forget to create all needed Graphs. There's no need to create all Templates on your own! Apart from the fact, that many common templates are provided out-of-the-box, there's a very simple machnism to Import Templates and to Export Templates. To create a new data template, select Data Templates under the Templates heading and click Add. The first thing you must do is give the template a name.