The objectives of supervision, the techniques available
Cacti: presentation of the functionalities
Reminders on the principles of HTTP, SMTP, NNTP, POP3, PING
Definition of the resources to be monitored

Data storage power RDDTool Web
interface Advanced graphical templates
Multiple data acquisition methods with data collection scripts
User
management Log management
Graph export

Prerequisites
Installation of Cacti on Windows, Unix / Linux
Upgrade

Workshop: Installation of Cacti

RRDTool: presentation, functionalities
Management of different types of data / RRA archives
RRDTool graphics, use of the CDEF command

Workshop: Understanding and extracting different data via RRDTool

Overview of the different methods
Data collection via SNMP / external scripts
The
Data Source  poller

Workshop: Using external scripts

User management: profiles, access rights
Authentication by LDAP

Workshop: Creating a user profile and assigning rights

Templates: Creation / Export
Development of scripts: Perl / Php
Reporting
Modeling
Centralized management

Workshop: Creating actions and using mass modification

Operating principle
Installation of the plugin Architecture
Use of classic plugins

Workshop: Installation and use of plugins