Install Cacti in GNU/Linux

Cacti is a complete solution for generating graphics in grid, designed to take advantage of the storage power and graphics functionality that applications have RRDtool. This tool, developed in PHP, provides an agile pooler, templates advanced graphics, multiple methods for data collection, and user management. has a interface easy-to-use user interface, which is convenient for installations the size of a LAN, as well as for networks complex with hundreds of device

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We install the necessary packages for Cacti to work.

Bash

root@red-orbita:~# apt-get install php5 php5-gd php5-mysql  php5-gd php5-imap php5-ldap bapache2-mod-perl2 libxml2  apache2  mysql-server rrdtool snmp snmpd

We create the user

Bash

root@red-orbita:~# useradd cactiuser

We create the database and assign the user cactiuser root permissions.

Bash

root@red-orbita:~# mysql -u root -p

Bash

mysql>

mysql> set password for root@localhost=password(‘redorbita’);

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> create database cactidb;

Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> grant all on cactidb.* to root;

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> grant all on cactidb.* to root@localhost;

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> grant all on cactidb.* to cactiuser;

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> grant all on cactidb.* to cactiuser@localhost;

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> set password for cactiuser@localhost=password(‘redorbita’);

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql>

Next we go to the cacti website and download the latest version.

http://cacti.net/download_cacti.php

We download…

Bash

root@red-orbita:~# wget http://www.cacti.net/downloads/cacti-0.8.8a.tar.gz

We decompress

Bash

root@red-orbita:~# tar xzvf cacti0.8.7.tar.gz -C /var/www

We rename the folder

Bash

root@red-orbita:~# mv /var/www/cacti-0.8.8a/ /var/www/cacti

We access the folder

Bash

root@red-orbita:~# cd /var/www/cacti/

We import the cacti.sql file to the database we created earlier

Bash

root@red-orbita:/var/www/cacti/# mysql -u root -p
mysql> use cactidb
mysql> mysql -h localhost -u root -p cacti.sql
mysql> exit

we put cactiuser as the owner of the rra and log folders

Bash

root@red-orbita:/var/www/cacti/# chown -R cactiuser /log rra/

We edit the cacti configuration file.

Bash

vi /var/www/cacti/include/config.php

And we leave it as follows

text

$database_type = «mysql»;

$database_default = «cactidb»;

$database_hostname = «localhost»;

$database_username = «cactiuser»;

$database_password = «redorbita»;  #Aquí la password que le hayáis puesto

$database_port = «3306»;

$database_ssl = false;

We create a scheduled task telling it to run every 5 minutes.

Bash

root@red-orbita:/var/www/cacti/# vi /etc/cron.d/cacti

*/5 * * * * cactiuser /usr/bin/php /var/www/cacti/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1

We access cacti with our browser.

http://192.168.1.102/cacti/

And it shows us the installation wizard. Following

We tell you that we want a new installation.

We check that the configuration is correct and we finish.

It shows us the login… by default it is: user: admin password: admin

We already have our Cacti installed. I will upload more manuals about cacti.

Greetings, rokitoh!

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