Cacti Installation And Configuration From Cacti Source code

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Cacti Installation From Source

First You need to install all the required compilers

#apt-get install make gcc g++

#apt-get install cgilib freetype2 libttf-dev libttf2 libpngwriter0-dev libpng3-dev libfreetype6-dev libart-2.0-dev

Install rrdtool from Source

Now you need to download latest rddtool

#cd /usr/local/src/

#wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.2.15.tar.gz

#tar xfvz rrdtool-1.2.15.tar.gz

#cd rrdtool-1.2.15

#./configure

#make

#make install

Now you need to install apache and mysql servers

#apt-get install apache2

#apt-get install mysql-server-4.1

#apt-get install libapache2-mod-php4 php4 php4-cli php4-common php4-mysql php4-snmp php4-pear

Now you need to download the latest cacti from the following link

http://www.cacti.net/download_cacti.php

Extract the distribution tarball.

#tar xzvf cacti-version.tar.gz

Create the MySQL database

#mysqladmin --user=root create cacti

Import the default cacti database

# mysql cacti < cacti.sql

Optional: Create a MySQL username and password for Cacti.

#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.

#chown -R www-data:www-data rra/ log/

(Enter a valid username for cactiuser, this user will also be used in the next step for data gathering.)

Add a line to your /etc/crontab file similar to:

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

Replace cactiuser with the valid user specified in the previous step.

Replace /var/www/cacti/ with your full Cacti path.

Point your web browser to:

http://your-server/cacti/

This will give you some basic questions to answer just click next and when it gives you all the installation paths on this screen if you found below error

[NOT FOUND] RRDTool Binary Path: The path to the rrdtool binary.

You need to change the directory to - /usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.15/bin/rrdtool

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