To import a Cacti template, simply go to “Console” and then click on “Import Templates”. You can download it from Cacti website or here cacti_host_template_cisco_29003500. We will use a host template name “cacti_host_template_cisco_29003500” to monitor Cisco switch and this template also work on Cisco routers. So, we just need to import that template into Cacti application. Luckily, we don’t have to worry about it since many people had developed many Cacti template. In SNMP protocol, if we want to monitor something of a device, we need to know its OID or MIBs. Imports Device TemplateĬacti can monitor Cisco switch base on SNMP protocol. In the following command it is assumed that the IP address of Cisco switch is 10.0.0.10.
To test if the SNMP server on Cisco switch is configured properly and working, we need to login to Cacti server and execute the following snmpwalk command. We will configure a read-only SNMP community string as along with an ACL name “ACL-SNMP” to allow only a Cacti server IP address of 10.0.0.1 to be accessible to this device. First of all, we need to login to Cisco switch that we want to add and monitor it with Cacti and configure SNMP server as the following.
