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    cacti installation how to

    Original how to is posted at: http://forums.linuxwebadmin.info/ind...pic,153.0.html

    Introduction:

    Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool, it stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. The frontend is completely PHP driven. Along with being able to maintain Graphs, Data Sources, and Round Robin Archives in a database, cacti handles the data gathering. There is also SNMP support for those used to creating traffic graphs with MRTG.

    Cacti requirement:

    MySQL
    PHP
    RRDTool
    net-snmp
    php-snmp
    Apache (compiled with php support)


    MySQL configuration for cacti:


    Code:
    [root:~]# mysql -uroot -p
    Enter password: 
    mysql> create database cactidb;
    mysql> grant all on cactidb.* to root;
    mysql> grant all on cactidb.* to root@localhost;
    mysql> grant all on cactidb.* to cactiuser;
    mysql> grant all on cactidb.* to cactiuser@localhost;
    mysql> set password for cactiuser@localhost=password('cactipw');
    mysql> flush privileges;
    mysql> exit
    [root:~]#
    RRDTool Installation:

    Code:
    [root:~]# cd /usr/local/src/
    [root:~]# wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool.tar.gz
    [root:~]# tar -zxf rrdtool.tar.gz
    [root:~]# cd rrdtool*
    [root:~]# ./configure
    [root:~]# make
    [root:~]# make install
    [root:~]# make site-perl-install
    [root:~]# cd ..
    [root:~]# rm -fr rrdtool*
    [root:~]#
    Download and setup cacti:

    Code:
    [root:~]# group-add cacti
    [root:~]# useradd -g cacti cactiuser
    Code:
    [root:~]# tar -zxvf cacti*
    [root:~]# mv cacti-0.8.xx /home/cactiuser/cacti
    [root:~]# cd /home/cactiuser/cacti
    [root:~]# mysql --user=root --password=rootpw cactidb < cacti.sql
    [root:~]# chown -R cactiuser rra/ log/
    Make the proper changes for database and database password:

    [root:~]# vi /include/config.php

    Code:
    $database_defaut = “cactidb”;
    $database_hostname = “localhost”;
    $database_username = “cactiuser”;
    $database_password = “cactipw”
    Add this cron in /etc/crontab

    */5 * * * * cactiuser php /home/cactiuser/cacti/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1

    Add an alias or virtual host in your apache configuration file:

    Alias /cacti/ "/home/cactiuser/cacti/"

    Save and restart the apache and mysql service.

    Post Installation Steps:

    Browse the below mentioned URL:

    http://localhost/cacti

    -OR-

    http://remoteIP/cacti

    Code:
    1. Click Next
    2. Default (New Install) -> Click Next
    3. In third step you will have to provide the correct path of rrdtool and php
    RRDTOOL = /usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.15/bin/rrdtool
    4. Click Finish
    5. Login with Username/Password: admin/admin
    6. Change Password for user admin
    7. Click Save
    Thats all cacti is installed!

  2. #2
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    Good tutorial, I was just thinking less than 30 minutes ago about making a cacti tutorial(as I was installing it) but no need now

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    Thanks for the comment!!!

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    Wouldnt you have to restart crond as well, or is that just me remembering wrong?

    You might want to add a "more info" section at the buttom with links to the cacti forum, the RRDTool website and others that might prove useful if the user has problems with the tutorial...

    Furthermore, note that on many servers RRDTool cant install with tcl bindings, you'll get an error during make, to fix this, do ./configure --disable-tcl instead of ./configure. Same goes for python, in general so ./configure --disable-tcl --disable-python if you have any problems with the default configure...

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    Thanks for the information!

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    Hi,

    Is there a way to consolidate all the servers into a single cacti?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mygethosted
    Hi,

    Is there a way to consolidate all the servers into a single cacti?
    Using SNMP you can

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