Cacti 0.8 ; some guidance required ;-(

[jvanhambelgium]

Hi,

I've been using 0.6.8a for some time, works very well (on W2K).
Great job Ian & all other contributors.

I'm looking to 0.8 which is a giant leap forward! Absolutely cool!
The problem is that I can't find my way around in getting something drawn..
I understand the concepts from the 0.6.8a release, but in this release I'm bazzled with the options, the other way of working...

Does anyone has some documentation on this ? I just need 1 example to catch it ...


I appreciate your efforts!

[raX]

Is there something specific you are trying to do, but are having trouble with? I must admit that I have been putting off writing a manual for 0.8 amongst other development tasks, but I am going to write one over the next few days.

I need to add more sub-sections, but here is a start:

http://web.raxnet.net/cacti/cacti-0.8/docs/manual/

-Ian

[jvanhambelgium]

Hi Ian,

Well, with 0.6.8a the idea was straightforward, create the DS (using standard/customer data input ; snmp, scripts, whatever) and create a Graph of this

But on 0.8, I'm seeing all this cool new stuff

- I have a some MAX TNT's (access servers) that I want to monitor for example "used modems" , "free modems" , "failed modems"
With 0.6.8a, I have to create 1 DS PER SNMP OID, this resulted in lot's of work
Now with the templates, I guess I can produce some templates like "NAS Free Modems" , "NAS Busy Modems" , "NAS Failed Modems" , ... and later "hook" them onto a polling host ?

-The "Data Queries" are the actual OID's (or something else) that I could extract from a host ? I confuse this with Data Templates...

- Graph templates & Host templates is kinsa clear to me, CDEF's etc also (previous version)

I'll be checking out some of the docs beeing introduced... It's common that documentation is created last

Thanks & best regards,
Jan

[MikeF]