Monday, June 14, 2010

How to install Cacti on SME server

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.

Installation
This rpm require rrdtool 1.0 minimum. You can find it here [1] or download this local copy
[root@smeserver]#wget "http://www.vanhees.cc/index.php?name=CmodsDownload&file=index&req=getit&lid=317"
[root@smeserver]#yum localinstall rrdtool-1.0.50-3.el4.rf.i386.rpm
[root@smeserver]#wget "http://www.vanhees.cc/index.php?name=CmodsDownload&file=index&req=getit&lid=319"
[root@smeserver]#yum localinstall smeserver-cacti-0.8.7a-1.noarch.rpm

Uninstall
[root@smeserver]#yum remove smeserver-cacti-0.8.7a-1

Usage
You can access cacti interface by opening your web browser at the address:
https://[IP or NAME]/cacti

A login and a password is needed to connect. By default, installation process create a user "admin" with "admin" as password.

Of course, the first thing you have to do, is to change it
Settings

By default, installation process limit access at cacti to local network.

To enable cacti to be access from internet and local network :

db configuration setprop cacti access public
signal-event console-save

To limit access to local network :

db configuration setprop cacti access private
signal-event console-save

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