Per-User Graph Trees

[andrew2]

As I'm working towards further integrating Cacti into our customer-facing architecture I've come up against a bit of a roadblock. My intent is to give customers access to graphs pertaining to their services that can be browsed through in a convenient manner.

What I've come to realize, is that the graph tree layouts that make sense for us as a service provider are not necessarily the best structure for end-users. As an example, to keep the left menu from getting too long by default, we have one "Clients" tree under which there is a Heading for each client underneath which are typically several subheaders for each service we provide for the client. Since we don't want clients to see all the other clients (even if they don't have access to those graphs) we can't allow them to have tree view, which means having them log in directly to Cacti is kind of pointless. For now, we're direct linking in to the graphs to which they have access, but we'd like to allow them to log into cacti directly from the main login page. What makes sense to me would be the ability to define separate graph trees with different graph placements for each user in the system so that we can easily customize the view each customer gets when they log in to Cacti.

Is there a trick I'm missing that will let me do this with Cacti as-is?

Andrew

[TheWitness]

Look under User Management. You can assign a user to 1-many Tree's graphs, etc.

Hope this helps.

TheWitness