Install Cacti Monitoring

Cacti is an open source web based network monitoring tool designed as the front end application for the RRDtool (Round-Robin database tool), it allows a user to poll the services at a interval of time and resulting in the graph format. Cacti is generally used to get a graph data for the cpu and network bandwidth utilization, it monitors the network traffic by polling a router or switch via snmp.
Here is the small tutorial about installing Cacti on Ubuntu 14.04 / Linux Mint 17.

Requirements:

Install the following packages for Cacti setup.

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-mysql php5-snmp mysql-client mysql-server snmpd rrdtool

You will be asked to setup root password for MySQL, which will be required to setup cacti.

Install Cacti:

Install the cacti package using the following command, follow the onscreen instruction to setup the cacti.

sudo apt-get install cacti

Just give OK in the next screen to configure php.ini.

Cacti Install – PHP.Ini

Select web server for which cacti should be automatically configured.

Cacti Install – Select Web Server

Click Yes to configure the database for cacti, otherwise click no.

Cacti Install – Automatic Database configuration

Enter the root password of MySQL.

Cacti Install – MySQL root password

Enter the password for cacti user for cacti database.

Cacti Install – Passowrd for cacti user

Re enter the password.

Cacti Install -ReEnter cacti password

Setup Cacti:

Visit the following url to start the installation of cacti. http://your-ip-address/cacti. Click on Next to continue.

Setup Cacti – Guide

Scroll down for the options, please select New Install for the new installation and then click Next.

Setup Cacti – Type of installation

It will show you, if there is any package is missing which is mandatory for the cacti.

Setup Cacti – Dependencies

Enter User Name and Password (Default admin / admin)

Setup Cacti – Login Page

You must change the default password.

Setup Cacti – Change Password

The following shows the dashboard of the cacti.

Setup Cacti – Dashboard

Now you can start configuring the Cacti to monitor your devices. More documentation can be found here. We welcome your comments, please post your valuable comments below.

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