Cacti

Cacti requires MySQL, PHP, RRDTool, net-snmp, and a webserver that supports PHP such as Apache.

• untar cacti tarball in /www creating directory

/www/cacti-0.8.7d

• add following to the Apache httpd.conf:

###sergey: for CACTI
Alias /cacti "/www/cacti-0.8.7d/"
<Directory "/www/cacti-0.8.7d/">
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride None
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>

• configure mysql:

Create database:
   mysqladmin -h clondb1 -u root -p create cacti
Import the default cacti database:
   mysql -h clondb1 -u root -p cacti < cacti.sql
Create a MySQL username and password for Cacti:
   mysql -h clondb1 -u root -p mysql
   mysql> GRANT ALL ON cacti.* TO cactiuser@clonweb IDENTIFIED BY 'cloncacti';
   mysql> flush privileges;
   mysql> exit;
Edit include/config.php and specify the database type,
name, host, user and password for your Cacti configuration:
   $database_type = "mysql";
   $database_default = "cacti";
   $database_hostname = "clondb1";
   $database_username = "cactiuser";
   $database_password = "cloncacti";

• create user 'cactiuser' with private group 'cactiuser'

• Set the appropriate permissions on cacti's directories for graph/log generation. You should execute these commands from inside cacti's directory to change the permissions:

chown -R cactiuser rra/ log/

• Create /www/cacti-0.8.7d/cron subdirectory and cronjob file inside with following contents:

*/5 * * * * cactiuser php /www/cacti-0.8.7d/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1

Login as cactiuser', go to that directory and start cron job:

crontab cronjob

Check that it is running:

crontab -l

• Point your web browser to http://clonweb/cacti/.

• Log in the with a username/password of admin. You will be required to change this password immediately. Make sure to fill in all of the path variables carefully and correctly on the following screen.