Data Input Templates ?

[alinux]

Hi
I have 3 graphs I need to create, basically all are the same but differ in hostnames, each graph has 30 custom inputs, so I need 30 data input methods where only the destination hostname differs, all in all that is 90 data input methods.

The approach I normally take for custom graphs is create data input method, create data source, create graph. But for such a large number of inputs this is going to take forever "30 Data Inputs/30 Data Sources/30 times add input to Graph" and since almost everything apart hostnames is the same there ought to be some different approach, any input please ?
Regards

[BSOD2600]

Actually, once you create the data and graph templates (each with the 30 items), you don't have to do it again. That's the benefit of a template; create it once, use it many times...

[alinux]

Can you please elaborate, if I do it the way I am doing it now, the server IPs are hardcoded into the data input methods with the OIDs, so those will need to be recreated for all.

[BSOD2600]

Then make the IP field dynamic (aka enable the 'Use Per-Graph Value' or 'Per-Data Source Value' setting).

I strongly recommend you read through the script/template guides in http://docs.cacti.net/