How To Install Cacti On Ubuntu 14

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How To Install Cacti On Ubuntu 14.04/14.10

by anismaj

Cacti is an open source web based network monitoring tool front-end for the data logging tool called RRDtool. It’s allow users to check the servicesHow To Install Cacti On Ubuntu 14 at an interval of time and resulting in the graph format. For more information about Cacti refer the official website.

The object of this article is to guide you how to install and setup Cacti on Ubuntu 14.04.

Before installing cacti you need to make sure to install all dependencies.

1 – Lamp server

First step is to install Lamp server (Apache, Mysql, PHP)

sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php5 libapache2-mod-php5

2 – RRDtools

A useful open source tool for storage and retrieval of time series data.

sudo apt-get -y install rrdtool

3 – SNMP and SNMPd

If you want to monitor the localhost where cacti is installed you need to install and configure the service snmpd.

sudo apt-get -y install snmp snmpd

Now after installing all dependencies we start the installation of cacti.

4 – Cacti and Spine

If you want a faster way to poll servers for information than the default php script cmd.php, you need to install cacti-spine.

sudo apt-get -y install cacti cacti-spine

Popup message will appear like this just select OK and move on.

How To Install Cacti On Ubuntu 14

Now it will ask you for a webserver that you will use it, we choose Apache2 since that’s what we installed in the  dependencies.

How To Install Cacti On Ubuntu 14

Next it will ask to configure the Cacti database, select Yes.

How To Install Cacti On Ubuntu 14

Now it will ask for your root password of MySQL database.

How To Install Cacti On Ubuntu 14

Before we start the web configuration part, we need to start the snmpd service.

sudo /etc/init.d/snmpd start

Now you can access http://ip-of-you-server/cacti after installation, the first login, the default account and password are “admin”.

Click Next.

How To Install Cacti On Ubuntu 14

Select new install and click Next

How To Install Cacti On Ubuntu 14

If everything is green, which it should be if you followed all the steps, click Next.

How To Install Cacti On Ubuntu 14

Now you need to type the login and password, the default account and password are “admin”.

Then you will be prompted to change the password.

How To Install Cacti On Ubuntu 14

After login in to Cacti you should see similar to the following screen.

How To Install Cacti On Ubuntu 14

5 – Setup spine

In Console -> Cacti Settings -> Poller, Change the poller Type from comd.php to spine.

How To Install Cacti On Ubuntu 14

6 – Rebuild Poller Cache

Whenever the Poller Interval is changed, the cache must be emptied. To do this, click “System UtilitiesHow To Install Cacti On Ubuntu 14” under the Utilities heading on the left-hand navigation panel.Click on “Rebuild Poller Cache” to empty the cache.

In about 5 minutes you’ll see the first graphs of localhost server start populating under the graphs tab.

How To Install Cacti On Ubuntu 14

Done!