Hi Guys,

I have written a Cacti Installation and basic setup guide for CentOS 6 64bit.

Could you check it over and let me know if I have missed anything or if I can improve my method of installing and setting up Cacti. 

I should clarify things a little by announcing I am a beginner with Cacti and Linux, I have primarily made the guide as a learning experience for myself. If it helps anyone else in the future, that's just awesome!

I have used the website below to for parts of the initial install. I have modified their instructions to try and make the installation work for everyone in every situation. Also, I included a few bits they missed out.

http://www.tecmint.com/install-cacti-ne ... ora-17-12/ as a 

Thanks Guys.

Installing and configuring Cacti with Cent OS 6.3

Before we can install Cacti, we must install the following packages.

• Apache : A Web server to display network graphs created by PHP and RRDTool.

• MySQL : A Database server to store cacti information.

• PHP : A script module to create graphs using RRDTool.

• PHP-SNMP : A PHP extension for SNMP to access data.

• NET-SNMP : A SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is used to manage network.

• RRDTool : A database tool to manage and retrieve time series data like CPU load, Network Bandwidth etc.

• UnZip : A simple tool for extracting zip files

Once Cent OS 6.3 is installed login as “root” with the password you configured during the OS installation

Installing Apache

# yum install httpd httpd-devel

Install MySQL

# yum install mysql mysql-server

Install PHP

# yum install php-mysql php-pear php-common php-gd php-devel php php-mbstring php-cli php-mysql

Install PHP-SNMP

# yum install php-snmp

Install NET-SNMP

# yum install net-snmp-utils p net-snmp-libs php-pear-Net-SMTP

Install RRDTool

# yum install rrdtool

Install UnZip

# yum install unzip

Now that all the required packages are installed, we must start their services running.

Start Apache

# service httpd start

Start MySQL

# service mysqld start

Start SNMP

# service snmpd start

Setup start up links for Apache, MySQL and SNMP

Apache

# /sbin/chkconfig --levels 345 httpd on

MySQL

# /sbin/chkconfig --levels 345 mysqld on

SNMP

# /sbin/chkconfig --levels 345 snmpd on

Add the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository (64-Bit CentOS 6 only). This is where the Cacti installation is downloaded from.

# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/e ... noarch.rpm

# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Download and Install Cacti

# yum install cacti

Setup MySQL Server for Cacti

# mysqladmin -u root password Desired-Password-Here

Create MySQL Cacti Database

# mysql -u root -p

mysql> create database cacti;

mysql> GRANT ALL ON cacti.* TO cacti@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ‘Password-you-set-above’;

mysql> FLUSH privileges;

mysql> quit;

Setup Cacti Tables in MySQL

To being, we need to know the location of the cacti.sql file where the tables will be installed. Use the following command to show the location.

# rpm -ql cacti | grep cacti.sql

Sample Output

/usr/share/cacti-0.8.7d/cacti.sql

Now we need to install the tables into the cacti.sql file. Use the following command to do this, replace the green text for the location shown by the command above.

# mysql -u cacti -p cacti < /usr/share/cacti-0.8.7d/cacti.sql

Configure MySQL settings for Cacti

Open db.php with your preferred editor

# vi /etc/cacti/db.php

Make the changes highlighted in red

/* make sure these values reflect your actual database/host/user/password */

$database_type = "mysql";

$database_default = "cacti";

$database_hostname = "localhost";

$database_username = "cacti";

$database_password = "your-password-here";

$database_port = "3306";

$database_ssl = false;

Configure Apache Server for Cacti Installation

You need to allow access to Cacti from the ipranges you require. By default I choose to allow access from all IP addresses. This can be viewd as an unsecure option and you may wish to follow a different path. (Google is your friend).

Open /etc/httpd/conf.d/cacti.conf with your preferred editor

# vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/cacti.conf

Add the following section at the bottom of the config file

Alias /cacti /usr/share/cacti

<Directory /usr/share/cacti/>

Order Deny,Allow

Deny from none

Allow from all

</Directory>

In order for this change to take effect, Apache must be restarted. Issue the following command to restart Apache

# service httpd restart

Setting Cron for Cacti

Open the Cacti cron file and and uncomment the line to enable the poller.php to run every5 mins.

#vi /etc/cron.d/cacti

Delete the # in the following line

#*/5 * * * * cacti /usr/bin/php /usr/share/cacti/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1

Configure firewall to allow access to Cacti from the web

Open the iptables file

# vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables

Add the following line 

# -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT

Restart iptables

# service iptables restart

Complete Cacti Installation via web installer

Open http://SERVER-IP/cacti to view the web installer.

Basic Cacti configuration

In order for Cacti to be able to complete all the tasks we require, a few plugins need to be installed. These are;

• Monitor

• Errorimage

• Settings

• Jqueryskin

• Discovery

• Weathermap

• Realtime

• Nectar

• Thold

• Watermark

• Hmib

• Syslog

All the required plugins can be found either on Cacti website (docs.cacti.net/plugins).

Download the required plugins

We will be using the wget command to download the plugins as required. The links in this document refer to the plugins at the date of the documents publication. You may need to obtain the current links from the docs.cacti.net/plugins site.

Switch to the Cacti plugins directory

# cd /usr/share/cacti/plugins

Monitor Plugin

# wget http://docs.cacti.net/_media/plugin:monitor-v1.3-1.tgz

Error Image

# wget http://docs.cacti.net/_media/plugin:err ... v0.2-1.tgz 

Settings

# wget http://docs.cacti.net/_media/plugin:set ... 0.71-1.tgz

Jqueryskin (If below link doesn’t work get current link from http://www.freedrive.com/folder/342025)

wget http://node1.nirvanix.com/jN8Cdrq0~3CM6 ... ryskin.zip

Discovery

# wget http://docs.cacti.net/_media/plugin:dis ... v1.5-1.tgz

Weathermap

# wget http://www.network-weathermap.com/files ... -0.97a.zip 

Realtime

# wget http://docs.cacti.net/_media/plugin:realtime-v0.5-2.tgz

Nectar

# wget http://docs.cacti.net/_media/plugin:nectar-v0.35a.tgz

Thold

# wget http://docs.cacti.net/_media/plugin:thold-v0.4.9-3.tgz

Watermark (If below link doesn’t work get current link from http://www.freedrive.com/folder/342025)

wget http://node1.nirvanix.com/2-sZuPC-~7g88 ... ermark.zip

Hmib

# wget http://docs.cacti.net/_media/plugin:hmib-v1.4-2.tgz

Syslog

# wget http://docs.cacti.net/_media/plugin:syslog-v1.22-2.tgz

Renaming the plugins ready for extraction

Before we can install any plugins we need to remove the “plugin:” prefiex has been attached to any of the plugins hosted on the cacti website. Other plugins like weathermap don’t have this prefix and can be ignored at this step.

To check which files need to be corrected list all the plugins we have just downloaded

# ls

Sample Output

Index.php

Plugin:monitor-v1.5-1.tgz

Plugin:discovery-v1.5-1.tgz

Plugin:hmib-v1.4-2.tgz

Every file which has the “plugin:” prefix needs to be renamed with the “mv” command. To use this command simply write “mv PLUGINS-OLD-NAME PLUGINS-NEW-NAME” at the command prompt for each plugin.

# mv plugin:monitor-v1.3-1.tgz monitor-v1.3-1.tgz

# mv plugin:discovery-v1.5-1.tgz discovery-v1.5-1.tgz

# mv plugin:hmib-v1.4-2.tgz hmib-v1.4-2.tgz

# mv plugin:nectar-v0.35a.tgz nectar-v0.35a.tgz

# mv plugin:settings-v0.71-1.tgz settings-v0.71-1.tgz

# mv plugin:thold-v0.4.9-3.tgz thold-v0.4.9-3.tgz

# mv plugin:errorimage-v0.2-1.tgz errorimage-v0.2-1.tgz

# mv plugin:realtime-v0.5-2.tgz realtime-v0.5-2.tgz

# mv plugin:syslog-v1.22-2.tgz syslog-v1.22-2.tgz

At the point we need to check that all the plugins are named correctly. Issue the “ls” command and look for any plugins which have the prefiex “plugin:”. If you see any rename them as shown above and then continue.

Extracting the plugins

In order to extract the plugins, issue the “tar –zvxf PLUGIN-NAME” command for each plugin compressed with .tgz and “unzip PLUGIN-NAME” for each plugin compressed with .zip

# tar -zvxf monitor-v1.3-1.tgz

# tar -zvxf discovery-v1.5-1.tgz

# tar -zvxf hmib-v1.4-2.tgz

# tar -zvxf nectar-v0.35a.tgz

# tar -zvxf settings-v0.71-1.tgz

# tar -zvxf thold-v0.4.9-3.tgz

# tar -zvxf errorimage-v0.2-1.tgz

# tar -zvxf realtime-v0.5-2.tgz

# tar -zvxf syslog-v1.22-2.tgz

# unzip php-weathermap-0.97a.zip

# unzip watermark.zip

# unzip jqueryskin.zip

Tidy up the Plugins Folder

Now that all the plugins have been extracted, we need to remove the compressed files

# rm -rf monitor-v1.3-1.tgz

# rm -rf discovery-v1.5-1.tgz

# rm -rf hmib-v1.4-2.tgz

# rm -rf nectar-v0.35a.tgz

# rm -rf settings-v0.71-1.tgz

# rm -rf thold-v0.4.9-3.tgz

# rm -rf errorimage-v0.2-1.tgz

# rm -rf realtime-v0.5-2.tgz

# rm -rf syslog-v1.22-2.tgz

# rm -rf php-weathermap-0.97a.zip

# rm -rf watermark.zip

# rm -rf jqueryskin.zip

Confirm that all compressed files have been deleted by listing all files in the folder

# ls

If any compressed files remain, issue the “rm -rf COMPRESSED-FILE-NAME” command to remove them

Configuring the plugins

In order for the plugins to Install correctly some of them require a little configuring before they will work.

Realtime Graphs

Realtime Graphs requires a directory to store temp images as the realtime graphs are created. This directory needs to be writeable. Change directorys to the extracted reatime graphs folder.

# cd /usr/share/cacti/plugins/realtime

Create a new directory called “temp” 

# mkdir temp

Set the permissions on the new directory to be writable by all

# chmod 777 temp

PHPWeathermap

We need to activate the editor in editor.php. Navigate to the correct folder

# cd /usr/share/cacti/plugins/weathermap

Make the configs directory writeable by the user

# chmod 777 configs

Make the output directory writable by the user

# chmod 777 output

Open the editor.php

# vi editor.php

Set ENABLED=true at the top of editor.php, then save and exit the editor

Set the max PHP file size to 768Mb. 

To find the php.ini use the command

#find / -name php.ini

Change directory to the correct directory and open php.ini in your chosen editor

#cd /etc

#vi php.ini

Scroll down until you see “memory_limit = 128M”. Edit this to be “memory_limit = 768M” then save and close the editor

Install Webmin

Webmin makes simple tasks like setting the system time and keeping things up to date very easy.

Change directory to the root directory

# cd /root/

Make a new directory to download webmin into

# mkdir webmin

Change directory to your newly created Webmin directory

# cd /root/webmin/

Download the latest tar.gz version of Webmin (Get link from http://www.webmin.com/download.html)

# wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/weba ... 610.tar.gz

Extract the Webmin download

# tar -xf webmin-1.610.tar

Change directory to the extracted Webmin directory

# cd webmin-1.610

Run the Webmin setup (accept default settings and enter a new password)

# ./setup.sh /usr/local/webmin

Add Webmins port to the iptables open the iptables file

# vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables

Add the following line 

# -A INPUT -m state -state NEW -m tcp -p tcp -dport 10000 -j ACCEPT

Restart iptables

# service iptables restart

Configure the servers clock so that all Cacti graphs show the correct time

1. Login to Webmins web interface YOUR-SERVERS-IP:10000

2. Click “Hardware” on the left

3. Click “System Time” on the left

4. Set the “System Time” to the correct time

5. Click “Apply”

6. Set the “Hardware Time” to the correct time

7. Click “Save”

8. Click Logout on the left

Activate Plugins 

1. View the cacti website (YOUR-SERVER-IP/Cacti)

2. Click “Plugin Management” on the left

3. Install and activate all plugins excluding Syslog (we will activate syslog in a moment)

4. Click “Settings” on the left

5. Click the “Misc” tab across the top

6. In the “Realtime Graphs” section input “/usr/share/cacti/plugins/realtime/temp” in the “Cache Directory”

7. Click “Save”

8. Check that the “Cache Directory” now shows “[OK: DIR FOUND]”

9. Click the “Visual” tab

10. In the “Watermark” section select “No Grid Fit”

11. Press “Save”

12. Click “Plugin Management” on the left

13. Click “Install” on Syslog

14. Change the “Retention Policy” to 3 Months

15. Click “Install”

16. Click “Activate” on the Syslog plugin

Install Advanced Ping 2.2

1. Download Advanced Ping template to your pc (http://www.freedrive.com/folder/342025)

2. In the Cacti web interface click “Import/Export” on the left

3. Click “Import Templates”

4. Click “Choose File”

5. Select the Advanced Ping template you downloaded

6. Click “Import” at the bottom

Finally, add your devices to Cacti and graph them as per your requirements.

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