Data center traffic reporting with Cacti

[ajhalls]

I am trying to get a good profile of my data usage so I know what kind of connection speeds I need when placing servers for colocation.

I have Cacti installed and connected to 2 servers through snmp so far. I am trying to get the following data sources available on my tree:

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Interface - Traffic (bits/sec)      
Interface - Traffic (bits/sec, 95th Percentile)         
Interface - Traffic (bits/sec, Total Bandwidth)         
Interface - Traffic (bytes/sec)     
Interface - Traffic (bytes/sec, Total Bandwidth)

Under devices I have the servers setup as Generic SNMP-enabled Host using version 1 snmp. The only Associated Graph Templates currently assigned are:

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1) Linux - Memory Usage 
2) ucd/net - Load Average
3) Unix - Load Average 

When I go to add more, the only available options are:

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Cisco - CPU Usage               
Host MIB - Logged in Users      
Host MIB - Processes            
Linux - Memory Usage            
Netware - File System Activity  
Netware - File System Cache     
Netware - Logged In Users       
Netware - Open Files            
SNMP - Generic OID Template     
ucd/net - CPU Usage              
ucd/net - Load Average          
ucd/net - Memory Usage          
Unix - Load Average              
Unix - Logged in Users          
Unix - Ping Latency              
Unix - Processes              

There are a lot of great templates I would love to use, but not sure why I can't access them on the drop down. When looking under the Host Templates section, there doesn't seem to be anything there that details which templates should be available to which kind of host nor do I see anything under the Graph Templates section.

I have about 10 Ubuntu and CentOS servers in multiple data centers I would like to be able to monitor, what am I missing to enable the other templates?

[cigamit]

For those 2 servers, remove these

Linux - Memory Usage
Unix - Load Average

Those are script based for the "localhost" that Cacti is running on, we really just need to remove them IMO.

For Interface Traffic, you don't want to add a "Graph Template" to the host, you want to go down further and add a "Data Query" named "SNMP - Interface Statistics"