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==Features==
The primary features of Cacti include:<ref name="Cacti - Features"/>
* Support for unlimited monitored devices
* Multiple levels of Device and Graph organization via Site and Location attributes and Tree structures to organize Graphs, Devices and Sites
* Distributed Data Collection using Remote Data Collectors which are resilient to intermittent network failures
* Extendable via the Plugin Architecture
* Automated Device Discovery including Graph and Tree Automation
* Device, Automation, and Graph Templating
* Upstream SNMP Trap and Inform Support
* Fault Management via the Syslog Plugin
* Fault Management via the Threshold Plugin
* Router and Switch backup and Configuration Management via the RouterConfigs Plugin
* Network Mapping via the WeatherMap Plugin
* Network Mac Address and Device location services via the MacTrack Plugin
* Dashboarding via the Intropage Plugin
* Web Site service checks via the WebSeer Plugin 
* Built-in massively parallel SNMP support
* Built-in massively parallel PHP script server support
* Optional support WMI based data collection via the WMI Plugin 
* Multiple Graph access permission Models for large scale deployments
* User and User Group access control
* Multiple Access Control methodologies including LDAP, AD, local users as well as multiple SSO providers through Apache and Nginx modules
* Support Database sessions enabling scale out Cacti deployments front ended by load balancers and back ended using clustered file systems such as GlusterFS, CEPH and NFS.