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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910962190603321
• Autore: Urban Thomas
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Olton, Birmingham, : Packt Pub. Ltd., 2011
• ISBN: 9786613376749; 9781283376747; 1283376741; 9781849513937; 1849513937
• Edizione: [1st edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (571 p.)
• Disciplina: 004.24; 005.8
• Soggetti: Computer graphics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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?
• Sommario/riassunto: Learn Cacti and design a robust Network Operations Center