Cacti 0.8 Beginner's Guide
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Time for action – adding interface graphs to a device

  1. Go back to the device overview page by clicking on the Devices link under the Management menu.
  2. Click on the device you have just created or create any other SNMP capable device having network interfaces.
  3. Configure the device to use SNMP and click on the Save or Create button.
    Time for action – adding interface graphs to a device
  4. Make sure that the following information appears at the top of the page. This will show that the device is SNMP capable.
    Time for action – adding interface graphs to a device
  5. In the Associated Data Queries section select the SNMP – Interface Statistics from the drop-down list and click on the Add button. If it is already there, then skip this step.
    Time for action – adding interface graphs to a device
  6. Click on the Save button at the bottom of the page.
  7. Go to the top of the page and click on Create Graphs for this Host.
  8. On the new page which appears, select the interfaces you want to monitor and select a Graph type from the drop-down list.
  9. Click on the Create button.
Time for action – adding interface graphs to a device

What just happened?

You added the SNMP – Interface data query to the device and selected some interfaces from the interfaces list.

The SNMP – Interface data query is a special package, containing the graph definitions and a kind of blue-print for Cacti to poll information for the interfaces of a device.