Help with Graphing Updates

[kjohero]

DISCLAIMER: I am only a Cacti GUI user, not a programmer.

I am in the process of adding/modifying network devices (specifically, Cisco catalyst switches) in Cacti. After reconfiguring numerous switches' interface description statements, I performed verbose queries on evey switch and I still see the old description statements are shown in the graphs.

Could you please give me some advice for forcing SNMP updates to grab information from the switches? I need the host graphs with reflect the new description statements?

[kjohero]

In the "Console"

- click the "Graph Templates" link
- select "Interface - Traffic (bits/sec)"
- Go to the "Graph Template" section and input the following string just as it appears below and click save:

|host_description| |query_ifName| - Traffic - |query_ifAlias|

- this will do several things:

1. it will label all switch interface graphs in sequential order AND label the graphs with the description
statements (if it has them) - if no description statements are present then "|query_ifAlias|" will appear instead
which is not a big deal to me IF the port numbers are labeled

2. when you save this information a complete query is done for all switch interfaces and the graphs will be updated
and historical data is saved -- a save can be done to refresh interface descriptions when changes are made to switch
ports solving my problem with Cacti