Creating a device

Creating a device in Cacti can be achieved by using the Cacti web interface or the Cacti CLI. In this chapter, you will focus on using the Cacti web interface, so you are going to add your first device here. While looking at the different steps it takes to add a device, we are not going too much into detail on every field as most of the user interface is self-explanatory and provides a detailed description of each field.

Before you start: Create a naming standard

If you have not already done so, you should now think about a naming standard for your devices. Creating and keeping to a naming standard is the first step to automation. Later in this book, you will go through some device and graph creation automation, where it is assumed that you have a naming standard for your devices in place.