Building a Tree hiarachy below a device

denis.king · Cacti User Joined: 29 Nov 2007 Posts: 67

If I look at the Tree capability today it is most usefull when you have devices all over the place. You can setup a tree heading for every place/city that you have devices and simply pull your device into the tree. When you place your device into the tree, you get all the graphs that are associated with that device automaticially placed in that tree location.

I have a different problem. I have ~ 300 graphs from ~25 graph templates per device (and a small number of devices). Having all my graphs under one heading (the device) is not the nicest way to look at what I care about. What I would like to do is pull in a device, but then create a tree below the device. Today, I can actually create a tree with different headings and then manually pull each graph from each device into the correct places on the tree, but with the number of graphs I have, this is not manageable. If there was such thing as a Tree template, then I may consider going through the hell to do this.

Oterhwise a way to pull in graphs by template name and not just graph name would reduce the number to ~25 (a little) more manageable.

The cadillac solution would to have another link next to the device so instead of

device (edit)

in the tree, you would have

device (edit)(add)

where you could add a sub-tree element and then pull in graphs via template names.

This would be very nice from an organization POV per device when dealing with large amounts of graphs.

Just a suggestions

Thanks

itsmydamnation · Joined: 16 Apr 2008 Posts: 4

i have this problem to, high population 6500's make for lots of graphs, right now to get around it i have lots of loopbacks and create the same device in cacti several times and assign different things to each "device". the soluition above would be much neater.

cheers

pvarthur · Joined: 20 Mar 2008 Posts: 5

I agree this would be a great addition and make the product much easier to use when there are a significant number of graphs. Sometimes the load time can get long and when you are only after a couple graphs it can be cumbersome.

niobe · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:28 pm Post subject:

Nice Idea...I have a slighly different one. How about offering a second kind of host tree, one that automatically groups graphs by graph template. This would still keep it as a one-step process. Tree management is already a little fiddly...

TheWitness · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:59 pm Post subject:

The original posters feaure is already delivered in Cacti for some time. Goto Graph Settings and check "Expand Hosts".

TheWitness

ps. Yes Tree Management "sucks" currently