Navigating the Cacti User Interface

The Cacti User Interface is visually broken into multiple sections. Each major section is navigated to by clicking on a Top Tab. By default, Cacti has four major sections called Console, Graphs, Reporting and Logs, though Administrators can add additional Top Tab sections through both installing and enabling Plugins or by adding External Links to Cacti.

Inside each of these sections, the page is broken into sub-sections. These Subsections include the Navigation Area and the Content Area.

All pages include a Breadcrumb area a User Profile and Menu area, and in some themes a Footer area is also included. Additionally, in some Themes the Breadcrumb area is hidden.

To use Cacti properly, you should first understand these sections. We will start by describing the Cacti Console.

The Cacti Console Top Tab

The image below is of the Cacti Console. From the Cacti Console, we can see many of Cacti's User Interface areas.

Example Cacti Page

Normal users, such as the Cacti Guest account should not have access to the Cacti Console.

The Cacti Graphs Top Tab

The Cacti Graphs Top Tab is where most Cacti Graphs are viewed. By default, the Cacti Graphs Top Tab includes three distinct views. They include:

In the example Tree View page below, you can see the Tree Navigation Area to the left, and in the Cacti Content Area, you can see the Graphs and a Table Filter area for constraining the list of Graphs returned. You can Search the Tree View from the Search area above the Tree Navigation Area.

Cacti Tree View Page


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