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. Installation

   This section contains information on how to install and/or upgrade the Cacti system. It covers requirements, different platforms and the steps needed to get your system working under normal circumstances.

2. Standard Operations

   This section covers materials from viewing your graphs to templates and script server operations.

3. Advanced Operations

   This section covers more advanced material such as using a custom script or the replacement variables that can be used within templates, etc.

4. Cacti Standards

   This section contains the relevant information on how to ensure that any work you contribute is kept to the same standards that we would apply if we had written the work ourselves. It should be noted that just because your work was not in compliance, we wouldn't automatically excluded it though were possible we will suggest amendments to make.

   Otherwise, we will likely make any minor alterations after excepting your work. It should also be noted that there is a posibility of finding code in Cacti that is non-compliant and it should be fixed up wherever possible.

Installation

1. Requirements

2. General Installing Instructions

3. Installing Under Windows

4. Upgrading Cacti

Standard Operations

1. Principles of Operation

2. Graph Overview

3. How to Graph Your Network

4. Viewing Graphs

5. Aggregate Overview

6. User Management

7. Graph a Single SNMP OID

8. Data Input Methods

9. Data Queries

10. Templates

11. PHP Script Server

12. Spine

Advanced Operations

1. How to Graph a Custom Collection Script

2. Frequently Asked Questions

3. Variables

4. RRDTool Specific Features

5. Command Line Scripts

6. Debugging

7. Version Specific Release Notes

8. Plugin Development

Cacti Standards

1. Documentation

2. Code Formating

3. PHP Specific Constructs

4. File System Layout

5. Patch Creation

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