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# Device Templates
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**Device Templates** are Cacti objects that allows you to define classes of
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**Devices** that includes from one to many **Graph Templates**, **Data Queries**
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and other **Plugin** related object types.
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The purpose of **Device Templates** is to simplify the **Automation** process by
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pre-defining the **Graphs** that should be created for every **Device** that is
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added to Cacti. They work in conjunction with **Automation Templates** so that
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when Cacti discovers a **Network** it knows what **Graphs** to create for each
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**Device**.
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The **Device Templates** main screen looks like the image below:
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From this page, you can see the title of each **Device Template**, it's ID which
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is important for the Cacti CLI scripts. You can see if the **Device Template**
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can be removed, and the number of **Devices** using the **Device Template**.
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Templates that are used by **Devices** can not be removed and therefore if you
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attempt to remove one of these Templates, you will receive and error message.
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From the drop down there are three options, they are:
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Option | Description
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Delete | Remove the **Device Template** if it's *Deletable*
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Duplicate | Make an exact copy of the **Device Template**.
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Sync Devices | Update all **Devices** using this **Device Template** with the latest definition, adding, but not removing **Graph Templates**, and **Data Queries**.
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When editing a **Device Template**, you will see the page as displayed below.
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From this page, you can add and remove **Graph Templates**, **Data Queries**,
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and other **Plugin** objects. In the image below, you can see that the *Cisco
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Router* has one **Graph Template** that of *Cisco - CPU Usage* and one **Data
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Query** that of *SNMP - Interface Statistics*. There are no **Threshold
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Templates** defined on the system, so there is no way to select one.
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To add a **Graph Template** or **Data Query** to the **Device Template**, simply
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select it from the drop down, and press the *Add* button. There is no need to
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*Save* afterwards. To removed one of these items, simply press the x glyph to
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the right of the desired **Graph Template** or **Data Query**.
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<copy>Copyright (c) 2004-2022 The Cacti Group</copy>
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