Cacti Installation

Dependencies

Cacti requires:

• rrdtool:
  http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/ rrdtool-1.0.35.tar.gz

• net-snmp (for SNMP support):
  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12694 ucd-snmp-4.2.3.tar.gz

• PHP 4 or newer.
• MySQL 3.23 or newer.

Installation Instructions

1. Extract the distribution tarball.

   shell> tar xzvf cacti-version.tar.gz

   
   
2. Create the MySQL database:

   shell> mysqladmin create cacti

   
   
3. Import the default cacti database:

   shell> mysql cacti < cacti.sql

   
   
4. 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;

   
   
   
   
5. Edit include/config.php.

   • Specify the MySQL user, password and database for your cacti configuration.

   $database_default = "cacti";
   $database_hostname = "localhost";
   $database_username = "cactiuser";
   $database_password = "cacti";
   

   
   
6. Edit php.ini.

   • Make sure you have the following options set in your php.ini file:

   register_globals = On
   register_argc_argv = On

   
   
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 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/cmd.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 immediatly. Make sure to fill in all of the path variables carefully and correctly on the following screen.