UID:
edocfu_9959660696202883
Format:
1 online resource (386 pages) :
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illustrations (some color)
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
1-78829-348-7
Content:
The book is designed in such a way that you can explore it chapter-by-chapter or skip any chapter without missing a beat. If you are a network operator and want to use Cacti for implementing performance measurement for trending, troubleshooting, and reporting purposes, then this book is for you. You only need to know the basics of network.
Note:
Includes index.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Customer Feedback -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Installing Cacti -- Preparing the system - basic prerequisites -- Web server -- PHP -- MySQL database -- NET-SNMP package -- Installing Cacti on a CentOS 7 system -- Preparing the system -- Time for action - installing the missing packages and preparing the system -- 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 poller -- Time 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 section -- Management section -- Data Collection section -- Templates section -- Automation section -- Presets section -- Import/Export section -- Configuration section -- Utilities section -- The graphs tab -- The nectar tab -- The clog tab -- Before we continue -- Pop quiz - a few questions about Chapter 1 -- Summary.
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Chapter 2: Using Graphs to Monitor Networks and Devices -- An introduction to Cacti graphs and RRDtool -- Creating graphs with 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 -- Variable definition (VDEF) -- Further reading -- Have a go hero - create your own visual warnings -- Adding devices to Cacti -- Creating a new site -- Time for action - creating a new site in Cacti -- Creating a device -- Time for action - creating a new device in Cacti -- Selecting host templates for the device -- Time for action - adding a host template to the device -- Adding graphs to the device -- Time for action - adding graphs to the device -- Adding interface graphs to a device -- Time for action - adding interface graphs to a device -- Adding devices to the Cacti tree -- Creating a tree -- Time for action - creating a Cacti tree -- Sub-tree items -- Time for action - adding a sub-tree -- Adding the device to the tree -- Time for action - adding a device to the Cacti tree -- Before we continue -- Pop quiz - a few questions about Chapter 2 -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Creating and Using Templates -- An introduction to templates -- Data Source templates -- Data input methods -- Data queries -- Graph templates -- Device templates -- Defining a data source template -- Time for action - defining a data source template -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - create your own TCP connections template -- Defining a graph template -- CDEF definition -- Time for action - defining a CDEF in Cacti -- Defining the graph template -- Time for action - defining the graph template -- Adding the threshold line -- Time for action - Adding new graph template items -- Adding the green, yellow, and red areas.
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Time for action - adding the color areas -- Adding a legend to the graph -- Time for action - adding a legend -- Back to the basics - rrdtool graph command -- Defining a device template -- Time for action - defining a host template -- Assigning a host template to a device -- Importing/exporting templates -- Importing templates -- Time for action - importing a template -- Exporting templates -- Time for action - exporting a template -- The template repository -- Before we continue -- Pop quiz - a few questions about Chapter 3 -- Summary -- Chapter 4: User Management -- An introduction to Cacti user management -- Users -- Groups -- Permissions -- Creating a user -- Time for action - creating the first Cacti user -- General User Settings -- Graph Options -- Login Options -- Authentication Realm -- Permissions tabs -- Permissions -- Normal User permissions -- Template Editor -- General Administration -- System Administration -- External Link Permissions -- Plugin Permissions -- Group Membership -- Graph Permissions -- Device Permissions -- Template Permissions -- Tree Permissions -- User Settings -- Time for action - setting general permissions -- Tree Permissions -- Time for action - setting Tree Permissions -- User Groups -- Time for action - creating a User Group for Customer A -- The template user -- Time for action - installing the missing packages -- Copying permissions - the Batch Copy mode -- Time for action - Batch Copy -- Integrate LDAP/Active Directory authentication -- External User management -- Time for action - setting up Active Directory authentication -- Managing users with the Cacti CLI -- Importing a list of users -- Time for action - importing users from the CLI -- Input validation -- Checking the existence of the template user -- Reading in the import file -- Before we continue -- Pop quiz - a few questions about Chapter 4 -- Summary.
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Chapter 5: Data Management -- An introduction to Cacti data management -- Data input methods -- Data queries -- Creating data input methods -- Preparation - creating the script -- Gathering the data -- Preparing the data for output -- Installation of the script -- Modifying the secure log permissions -- Time for action - creating a data input method - step 1 -- Time for action - creating a data input method - step 2 -- The data template -- Creating data queries -- Building the XML data file -- XML header -- XML input -- XML output -- Installing the XML file -- Creating the data query within Cacti -- Time for action - creating a data query - step 1 -- Time for action - creating a data query - step 2 -- Creating a remote SSH data input method -- Preparation -- The remote script -- The local script -- Input variables -- The SSH command execution -- Preparing the data -- SSH public key authentication -- Time for action - create SSH keys with ssh-keygen tool -- Creating the data input method -- Time for action - creating the data input method -- Creating the data template -- Creating the graph template -- Adding the graph to the device -- Alternative methods -- Have a go hero - remote command execution using SNMP -- Before we continue -- Pop quiz - a few questions about Chapter 5 -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Cacti Maintenance -- An introduction to Cacti maintenance -- Database -- RRD files -- The Cacti directory structure -- The cache directory -- The cli directory -- The docs directory -- The include directory -- The install directory -- The lib directory -- The locales directory -- The log directory -- The mibs directory -- The plugin directory -- The resource directory -- The rra directory -- The scripts directory -- Backup and restore procedures -- The MySQL/MariaDB database -- Time for action - backup your Cacti database -- What just happened?.
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Enhancing the database backup -- Automatic file naming -- Remove old backup files -- The database backup -- Compress the backup -- The whole script -- The Cacti files -- Building the backup file list -- Time for action - backup your Cacti files -- Enhancing the database backup script -- Time for action - enhancing the backup script -- What just happened? -- Adding remote transfer with SCP -- Time for action - Adding SCP to the backup script -- What just happened? -- Creating the cronjob - automating the backup -- Time for action - creating a cronjob -- What just happened? -- Restoring from a backup -- Restoring the Cacti database -- Time for action - Restoring the Cacti database -- What just happened? -- Restoring the Cacti files -- Restoring all Cacti files -- Restoring a single file from the backup -- Log file management -- Time for action - configuring logrotate -- What just happened? -- Cacti maintenance -- List RRD files with no associated host -- Time for action - finding orphaned RRD files -- What just happened? -- A short overview of the Cacti CLI functionality -- Repairing templates -- Repairing the database -- Pop quiz - a few questions about Chapter 6 -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Network and Server Monitoring -- An introduction to network and server monitoring -- Network devices -- VMware ESX -- Linux server -- Windows WMI monitoring -- Monitoring a network device -- Configuring SNMP access on Cisco Switch -- Time for action - setup SNMP on Cisco devices -- What just happened? -- Adding Cisco Switch to Cacti -- Time for action - adding a Cisco Switch to Cacti -- What just happened? -- Configuring SNMP access on a Cisco PIX firewall -- Time for action - setting up SNMP access on Cisco PIX -- What just happened? -- Adding Cisco PIX firewall to Cacti -- Time for action - adding a Cisco PIX firewall to Cacti -- What just happened?.
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Monitoring VMware ESX servers.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78829-918-3
Language:
English
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