Cacti 0.8 : beginner's guide : learn Cacti and design a robust network operations center / Thomas Urban.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Urban, Thomas (Software engineer)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer graphics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (571 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Olton, Birmingham : Packt Pub. Ltd., 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Urban Thomas: Thomas Urban is the owner of Urban-Software. de, a software and consulting services company providing add-ons, plugins, and services for the Cacti Performance Monitoring systems. He has been in the consulting business for more than 5 years and has been creating web applications for over 20 years building reporting interfaces, network management software, asset management sites, and much more. He is a part of the Cacti community and is known as Phalek in the Cacti forums, where he is among the Top 10 contributors. He started writing the first Cacti Beginners Guide for Cacti 0. 8 back in 2011. The second edition is his second official effort.

Summary:

Learn Cacti and design a robust Network Operations Center

Contents:

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

What just happened?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613376749

9781283376747

1283376741

9781849513937

1849513937

OCLC:

797916651