Adding devices to Cacti

A device in Cacti can be anything that can be monitored remotely or locally. This can be a storage device, Windows or Unix servers, and of course network devices. For Cacti to be able to monitor a device it needs to be reachable by ping or SNMP, but the actual data retrieval can also be done using scripts and commands, or a set of SNMP queries. With Cacti 1.0, a new management item has been introduced called Site. The site item allows you to group devices by site and also store site-specific information, such as address, time zone, and GPS coordinates. Before you add a new device, you will therefore first create a site to which you will be assigning the device later.