install cacti

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with hundreds of devices.

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Dependency : WebServer,MySQL,PHP, net-snmp, rrdtool (you can install net-snmp and rrdtool from zypper or yast)

+Download cacti

cd /root
wget http://www.cacti.net/downloads/cacti-0.8.7e.tar.gz

+Extract and move to root directory apache

tar -zxvf cacti-0.8.7e.tar.gz
mv cacti-0.8.7e cacti
mv cacti /home/prayoga/commands.org.uk/htdocs/

+add user and group for cacti

groupadd cacti
useradd -g cacti cactiuser
passwd cactiuser

+make database and table db for cacti

mysqladmin -u root -p create cacti
cd /home/prayoga/commands.org.uk/cacti
mysql -u root -p cacti <  cacti.sql
mysql -u root -p

+login into mysql server with root user

GRANT ALL ON cacti.* TO cactiuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY  'passcactiuser';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
quit

+edit file config.php

/* edit this line with your configuration */

$database_type  = "mysql";
$database_default  = "cacti";
$database_hostname  = "localhost";
$database_username  = "cactiuser";
$database_password  = "passcactiuser";
$database_port  = "3306";

+change owner to cactiuser for directory rra and log

chown -R cactiuser rra/ log/

+add cacti service in crontab schedule

crontab -e
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php -q /home/prayoga/commands.org.uk/htdocs/cacti/poller.php >> /dev/null 2>&1

open url in http://your _ip_pc/cacti and following intruction on the screen. klik button Next for continue the proses.

if any message need sockets when open http://your  _ip_pc/cacti,so need re-configure again your php with option --enable-sockets.

if all proccess done, you can login with user admin and password admin, and then you can change password

link:

http://www.blackonsole.org/2008_12_01_archive.html

http://www.cacti.net/