Install Cacti

INSTALL CACTI


Cacti requires that the following software is installed on your system.
• RRDTool 1.0.49 or 1.2.x or greater
• MySQL 3.23 or greater, 4.0.20d or greater highly recommended for advanced features
• PHP 4.1 or greater, 4.3.6 or greater highly recommended for advanced features
Packages for RPM-based Operating Systems
• httpd
• php
• php-mysql
• php-snmp
• mysql
• mysql-server
• net-snmp


Install RRDTool (supaya bisa menampilkan grafik) :
10. Download file rrdtool.tar.gz
shell> wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool.tar.gz
10. Extract the distribution tarball
shell> tar –xvzf rrdtool.tar.gz
10. Install RRDTool
shell> cd rrdtool-1.2.23/
shell> ./configure --disable-tcl
shell> make
shell> make install
10. Create a symlink for RRDTool
shell> ln –s /usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.23/bin/rrdtool /usr/local/bin/rrdtool


Install Cacti :
1. Download file cacti-0.8.6j.tar.gz di http://www.cacti.net/downloads/cacti-0.8.6j.tar.gz
2. Extract the distribution tarball.
shell> tar xzvf cacti-version.tar.gz
3. Create the MySQL database:
shell> mysqladmin --user=root create cacti
4. Import the default cacti database:
shell> mysql cacti <> mysql --user=root mysql
mysql> GRANT ALL ON cacti.* TO cactiuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'somepassword';
mysql> flush privileges;
6. Edit include/config.php and specify the MySQL user, password and database for your Cacti configuration.
$database_default = "cacti";
$database_hostname = "localhost";
$database_username = "cactiuser";
$database_password = "cacti";
7. 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.
shell> chown -R cactiuser rra/ log/
(Enter a valid username for cactiuser, this user will also be used in the next step for data gathering.)
8. Add a line to your /etc/crontab file similar to:
*/5 * * * * cactiuser php /var/www/html/cacti/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1
Replace cactiuser with the valid user specified in the previous step.
Replace /var/www/html/cacti/ with your full Cacti path.
9. Point your web browser to:
http://your-server/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


10. Install cacti-plugin-arch
- tar -zxvf cacti-plugin-arch.tar.gz
- cp cacti-plugin-arch/cacti-plugin-0.8.6j.diff /var/www/html/cacti/
- cd /var/www/html/cacti/
11. Now, let's test the patch to ensure that everything is set up properly by performing a dry run on the patching process. You do this, by issuing the command:
- patch -p1 -N --dry-run < cacti-plugin-0.8.6j.diff
12. If no errors are returned, let's go ahead and patch Cacti. Issue the following command to do so:
- patch -p1 -N < cacti-plugin-0.8.6j.diff
13. Edit config.php to set the proper URL path and user settings
- vi /var/www/html/cacti/include/config.php
- add line $config['url_path'] = '/cacti/'; in config.php file and save it
14. Adding cacti plugin
- Threshold
1. tar –zxvf thold-0-3-9.tar.gz
2. cp –Rf thold /var/www/html/cacti/plugins
3. vi /include/global.php
4. add line $plugins[] = 'thold'; in below this line $plugins = array(); and save it.
5. for another plugin, the steps is the same.

- Setting
1. tar –zxvf settings-0.4.tar
2. cp –Rf settings /var/www/html/cacti/plugins
3. vi /include/global.php
4. add line $plugins[] = 'settings'; in below this line $plugins = array(); and save it.
5. for another plugin, the steps is the same.
15. Browse to http://servername/cacti, login with username admin and password admin.
16. Click User Management, then choose admin in right side. In the session Realm Permissions, check View Thresholds and click Save button.