About the Author

Thomas Urban is the owner of Urban-Software.de, a software and consulting services company providing add-ons, plugins, and services for the Cacti Performance Monitoring systems. He has been in the consulting business for more than 5 years and has been creating web applications for over 20 years building reporting interfaces, network management software, asset management sites, and much more.

He is a part of the Cacti community and is known as Phalek in the Cacti forums, where he is among the Top 10 contributors.

He started writing the first Cacti Beginner’s Guide for Cacti 0.8 back in 2011. The second edition is his second official effort.

I would like to thank my wife for putting up with my late night writing sessions and for making sure that I never ran out of coffee on the countless evenings I spent sitting in front of the keyboard instead of with her and the children.
I would also like to thank the Cacti community, especially the developers, for creating the Cacti 1.x release and making sure that Cacti still has its place in the performance monitoring world.