Summary

You learned a lot about user management with Cacti in this chapter. You have now created your first user and applied some basic settings to the user.

By using the new concept of groups, you have created a common set of settings and permissions which will be applied to your users, helping you to reduce the overall effort of user management significantly.

During user and group creation, you have also learned how to allow or deny permissions for specific Cacti items and defined the required permissions to only allow your user a specific set of devices.

You have also learned how to create a template user and how to use the Batch Copy method to apply permissions from a template user to other users.

Using built-in LDAP Authentication, you have also integrated Cacti into an existing LDAP or Active Directory environment for even easier user management.

Finally, by using the provided scripts, you have learned how to import users into the Cacti system using the CLI interface.

Now that you have users on your system, it's time to give them more than just the standard Cacti graphs. In the next chapter, you will learn how to create your own data input methods and data queries and how to retrieve data using remote SSH commands.