Time for action - creating the first Cacti user

Creating users along with the correct permissions is essential to provide access to the correct information for your customers. The following steps will allow you to create a new user within Cacti:

1. Log on to your Cacti system as the admin user.
2. Go to Configuration | Users. You will be presented with a list of already existing users. For a newly installed Cacti system, there will only be admin and guest listed, as shown in the following screenshot:

1. Click on the Add link. You will be redirected to the User Management [new] screen.

1. Fill in the fields User Name, Full Name, Email Address, and Password, check the Enabled box, and hit the Create button.

You just created your first Cacti user. If you try to log on to your Cacti system with this new user, you will see that this is working, but you will also see that there will be nothing displayed.

Why is that so? Although you added the View Graphs permission for your user, the user does not have any permission to actually view any trees or graphs defined. You are going to do this in the next step, but first let's look at the different options available.