Access the technical support page of a remote poller
you will see instead of the max connections settings of the local server it will show the remote

local server settings
MariaDB [cacti]> show variables where variable_name = 'max_connections';
+-----------------+-------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+-----------------+-------+
| max_connections | 5000 |
+-----------------+-------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)