Cacti

I'll take it that these are not options at this time. Perhaps I should pick up a little PHP and write this in. If I do this, I will of course share it with the community.

I am new to Cacti, and I have two questions and could not find them trough searches. I hope these are not answered already. Is there a way to automatically query devices for interface status? I know how to do this manualy by clicking on that pretty green circle. Is there a way to tell Cacti to graph...