Many weathermaps

[LaurenceM8]

I have about twenty weathermap to be made. Would anybody have advice to be told me for this work?
thank you.
Laurence M

[donglee]

Twenty weathermap? So big your network is. I got 22 switches and routers in total, and I put them in one weathermap. if you want to build 20 weathermap, just enable snmp in your switches, and add your need devices one by one.

[LaurenceM8]

this is a really big network.
Thank you for your advice.
LaurenceM

[LaurenceM8]

I've do it.. 23 maps and more than 500 nodes on them

i've found some shortcuts

the first is to do a first map.
thinks about modify "Default Link Width" and "Default Link Bandwidth" in "map proprieties" before create links...

duplicate the map with an other name and to modify this last

modify in the folder can be faster than modify in the cacti interface.
go in the cacti folders and modify the map from here :

-in the file .conf of the map, you can add defaults settings (instead of modify one by one)
you can :
in the links default settings, add

how to modify automatly comment position
COMMENTPOS 60 30

put an automatly comment
INCOMMENT 100Mbps

modify the default bandwidth
BANDWIDTH 100M

Or you can use the function "replace all", very usefull when you have to create many nodes or many links with the same caracteristics :

1 create all the nodes on the interface cacti (without modify any settings)
2 go to the folder of the map (.conf)
you can read

NODE node05274
LABEL Node
POSITION 775 40

3 open replace all
4 replace "LABEL Node" by "LABEL NameYouChooseForNodes"
and you have change all the names who appears in a few minutes

and.. continue !

[LaurenceM8]

but to add graphs or data sources on the links, I found no shortcut.