Setting up of cacti

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)

Extract the distribution tarball.

Shell > tar xzvf cacti-version.tar.gz

Create the MySQL database:
Shell > mysqladmin–user = root create cacti

Import the default cacti database:

Shell > mysql cacti<>

Optional: Create a MySQL username and password for cacti.

Shell > mysql–user = root mysql

MySQL > GRANT ALL ON cacti. * TO cactiuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ‘somepassword’;

MySQL > flush privileges;

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”;

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 step for data be so used in the next gathering.)

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/cacti with your full path.
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 on the following screen.