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Cacti 0.8 Beginner's Guide.

Learn Cacti and design a robust Network Operations Center.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Urban, Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham : Packt Pub., 2011.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cacti 0.8; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more; Why Subscribe?; Free Access for Packt account holders; Preface; What is Cacti?; System architecture of Cacti; Cacti is more than performance measurement; What this book covers; What you need for this book; Who this book is for; Conventions; Time for action
  • heading; What just happened?; Pop quiz
  • heading; Have a go hero
  • heading; Reader feedback; Customer support; Errata; Piracy; Questions; 1. Installing Cacti; Preparing the system-basic prerequisites.
  • Web serverPHP; MySQL database; NET-SNMP package; Installing Cacti on a CentOS 5 system; Preparing the system; Time for action
  • installing the missing packages; What just happened?; Downloading and extracting Cacti; Time for action
  • downloading Cacti; What just happened?; Creating the database; Time for action
  • creating the database; What just happened?; Configuring Cacti; Time for action
  • configuring Cacti; What just happened?; Creating the poller cron entry and Cacti's system user; Time for action
  • creating the poller's cron entry and Cacti's system account; What just happened?
  • Installing the Spine pollerTime for action
  • installing Spine; What just happened?; Differences between source and APT/Yum installations; Have a go hero
  • remote server for database hosting; Installing Cacti on a Windows system; The community-built Windows Installer; Time for action
  • starting the Windows setup; What just happened?; Installing the Spine poller under Windows; Upgrading Cacti; Time for action
  • upgrading Cacti; What just happened?; Using Cacti for the first time; Time for action
  • configuring Cacti; What just happened?; The Cacti web interface explained; The Console tab.
  • Create sectionManagement section; Collection methods section; Templates section; Import/export section; Configuration section; Utilities section; The Graphs tab; Before we continue; Pop quiz
  • a few questions about Chapter 1; Summary; 2. Using Graphs to Monitor Networks and Devices; An introduction to Cacti graphs and the RRDtool; Creating graphs with the RRDtool; Basic RRDtool graph creation; Advanced RRDtool graph creation; Adding a label and title to the graph; Adding a legend to the graph; Adding a threshold line to the graph; Adding threshold breaches to the graph; Further reading.
  • Have a go hero
  • creating a yellow warning areaAdding devices to Cacti; Creating a device; Time for action
  • creating a new device in Cacti; What just happened?; Selecting host templates for the device; Time for action
  • adding a host template to the device; What just happened?; Adding graphs to the device; Time for action
  • adding graphs to the device; What just happened?; Adding interface graphs to a device; Time for action
  • adding interface graphs to a device; What just happened?; Adding devices to the Cacti tree; Creating a tree; Time for action
  • creating a Cacti tree.