Cacti 0.8 Network Monitoring : monitor your network with ease! / Dinangkur Kundu, S. M. Ibrahim Lavlu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kundu, Dinangkur.

Contributor:

Lavlu, S. M. Ibrahim.

Series:

From technologies to solutions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Client/server computing--Management.

Client/server computing.

Computer networks--Monitoring--Computer programs.

Computer networks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (132 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Kundu Dinangkur: Dinangkur Kundu is currently working as IT Support Analyst at Moriah College in Sydney, Australia, also running a local business directory for Bangladeshi people and developing web sites using concrete5 CMS in his free time. Dinangkur started his career as a Visual Basic programmer for DEN a hospital management system development company. Later, he moved to web programming and spent the majority of his career in the web arena, using open source technologies, which are the driving point of his technological advances. He worked as a LAMP developer for Quantumcloud building and implementing an e-commerce solution, content management system, helpdesk and service-oriented application; as Chief Technical Officer he implemented and managed the Linux based internet gateway, mail, backup, revision control and over all security. On the rare occasion he's away from his computer, you can find him reading books in String theory and gaze on math books. He dedicates this book to his parents Dipty Rani Kundu and Ranjit Kumar Kundu, most extraordinary and beloved ones in his life; because of their love and blessing he is here and continuing his journey. He also thanks his sweet wife Suravi Sarkar for her faithful support in writing this book. He specially thanks his younger brother Shanku, who took care of his Mum and Dad in his absence, and pushed him to reach his goal. He also wants to thank Rashmi Phadnis at Packt Publishing for being so patient with him. Lavlu S. M. Ibrahim: S. M. Ibrahim Lavlu is a Linux wizard who has dedicated most of the time his for Linux and open source. All time he is busy with his technical world. He is also expert in PHP. Now working as a software engineer and deployment engineer at somewhere in. .. net ltd. He maintains the world's largest Bangla blog community (www. somewhereinblog. net) and also the busiest site of Bangladesh. In his free time; Lavlu shares his knowledge on www. lavluda. com among his many tutorials and technical documents. For successfully completing this book; all credit goes to my wife Tania Sabnam (www. tsabnam. com). And special thanks to cacti developer team for their great support.

Summary:

Monitor your network with ease!

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; 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; 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 VersionInstalling Cacti from Source/Manual installation; Upgrading Cacti; Using APT; From source; Patch; Summary; 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; Creating and Using Templates; Types of Cacti templates; Graph templates; Creating a graph template; Graph Item Inputs; Host templates; Creating host templates; Using host templates; Importing templates; Exporting templates; Important templates; Summary; User Management

User Management consoleAdding 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; 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; 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 OIDSummary; Cacti Management; Directory structure; Backup; File backup; Database backup; Restoring from a backup; Poller cache; Command Line Interface; Summary; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786612257285

1-84719-597-0

1-282-25728-5

OCLC:

697481621