Install Cacti RHEL/CentOS/Oracle/Alma/Rocky
Install Cacti CentOS 6
Cacti is an Open Source Monitoring/Graphing Solution for Small to Enterprise Class networks. Cacti Allows you to Monitor Ping Response, Internet Usage, Internal Bandwidth, CPU, memory usage, etc. Very handy tool. Here’s the process to get it installed.
login to your Hosted Zwiegnet VM, and su to root
In our Case we have a CentOS Minimal install, we went ahead and installed updates with yum -y update, as well as install wget.
from here we need to install our dependencies:
and a few more dependencies for php
and now our SNMP dependencies:
done, now we have to set our services to start at startup, as well as start them now
now we need to enable the EPEL Repo
from here install the repo
now we need to actually install cacti
now set your MySQL password
login to MySQL
now Setup your Database
import cacti template database
configure cacti mysql settings
set up database Username/Password, etc
edit apache to allow outside connections
add your network (cusomize for your environment)
restart apache
setup cron
un-comment the first line
now enter the IP of your server, or hostname/cacti, you should have a nice greeting
click next
next
and finish!
login with the default cacti username=admin, pw=admin
you will be forced to change your password
That’s it!
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Related guides: Configure Cacti OpenLDAP authentication | Migrate Cacti to New Server CentOS 6