Cacti/Installation

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[edit] Getting Started

Before installing cacti check for net-snmp package. 

Cacti/SNMP host setup

You will probably need the following USE flags set: 

USE = mysql xml sockets vhosts

For php to work correctly

You will probably need the following USE flags set: 

USE = apache2 snmp vhosts

For cacti.

To install Cacti run the following command: 

emerge cacti

This will install cacti onto your system.

If you already installed php, but without xml flag set, you should re-emerge php with USE="xml" first of all! The same applies for the sockets flag.

NOTE: You have to run the command 

webapp-config -I -h localhost -d cacti cacti <version  #>

after you run the emerge.

[edit] Config

After installation you will need to edit the config file and insert the proper data to fit your installation

File: <path to cacti>include/config.php 
 ...
$database_type = "mysql";
$database_default = "cacti";
$database_hostname = "localhost";
$database_username = "cactiuser";
$database_password = "cactipass";
$database_port = "3306";
...

[edit] Install the database

First you need to create a database named 'cacti' with a user named cactiuser 

mysql -u root -p
mysql> create database cacti;
mysql> grant all on cacti.* to cactiuser@localhost;
mysql> set password for cactiuser@localhost=password('cactipass');
mysql> exit


If this is a fresh installation of mysql you might get a message like "Can't connect to local MySQL server through Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock (2)" . Just run mysql_install_db


While in the cacti folder run this command to insert the default database 

mysql -u cactiuser -p cacti < cacti.sql

Finish the configuration by accessing the cacti web page 

http://url/to/cacti/

Configure the required file paths. If you're going to login for the first time, the password-username pair is admin-admin by default.

Set the permissions on the cacti directories to be able to generate the graph/log. Execute this command in the cacti folder. 

chown -R apache:apache rra/ log/

[edit] Crontab

as your cacti user add the following to the cron file 

*/5 * * * * apache php <cacti path>/cacti/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1

[edit] Troubleshooting

If no graphs are generated and you receieve the following message in your cron logs, this indicates that an entry can not be found for the apache user in /etc/shadow. 

su: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.

This can be fixed by adding it with the following command: 

pwconv

[edit] More

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