Cacti (tm) Documentation

Cacti is designed to be a complete graphing solution based on the RRDtool's framework. Its goal is to make a network administrator's job easier by taking care of all the necessary details necessary to create meaningful graphs.

Please see the official Cacti website for information, support, and updates.

Cacti Developers

Ian Berry (raX) Larry Adams (TheWitness) Tony Roman (rony) J.P. Pasnak, CD (Linegod) Jimmy Conner (cigamit) Reinhard Scheck (gandalf) Andreas Braun (browniebraun) Mark Brugnoli-Vinten (netniV)

Thanks

A very special thanks to Tobi Oetiker, the creator of RRDtool and the very popular MRTG. The users of Cacti Especially anyone who has taken the time to create an issue report, or otherwise help fix a Cacti related problems. Also to anyone who has contributed to supporting Cacti. License Cacti is licensed under the GNU GPL:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Table of Contents

1. Requirements

2. General Installing Instructions

3. Installing Under Windows

4. Upgrading Cacti

5. Principles of Operation

6. Graph Overview

7. How to Graph Your Network

8. Viewing Graphs

9. Aggregate Overview

10. User Management

11. Graph a Single SNMP OID

12. Data Input Methods

13. Data Queries

14. Templates

15. PHP Script Server

16. Spine

17. How to Graph a Custom Collection Script

18. Frequently Asked Questions

19. Variables

20. RRDTool Specific Features

21. Command Line Scripts

22. Debugging

23. Version Specific Release Notes

24. Plugin Development

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