======================================================================= Cacti is now installed. If you intall it for the first time, you may have to follow this steps to make it work correctly: 1. Create the MySQL database, a cacti user, and initialize: a) CREATE DATABASE cacti; b) Create a mysql user/password for cacti: CREATE USER 'cacti'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; c) Add GRANTS: GRANT ALL ON cacti.* TO 'cacti'@'localhost'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; d) Import the default cacti database: mysql --database=cacti -ucacti -p < %%PREFIX%%/%%CACTIDIR%%/cacti.sql NOTE: * Cacti does not LOCK TABLES. 2. Edit %%PREFIX%%/%%CACTIDIR%%/include/config.php from the template config.php.orig. PHP requires the time zone to be explicitly set rather that rely on the system time zone, otherwise poller complains. I added the following line to my config.php: date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles'); 3. Add the following line to cron for %%CACTIUSER%%: */5 * * * * %%LOCALBASE%%/bin/php %%PREFIX%%/%%CACTIDIR%%/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1 4. Example Apache 2.4 configuration: LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache22/libphp5.so SetHandler application/x-httpd-php SetHandler application/x-httpd-php-source DirectoryIndex index.php DocumentRoot "/usr/local/share/cacti" Alias /cacti "/usr/local/share/cacti/" Alias /Cacti "/usr/local/share/cacti/" Require all granted AllowOverride None Order Allow,deny Allow from all 5. Open a Cacti login page in your web browser and login with admin/admin. If you update cacti, open a login page and an updating process will start automatically. NOTEs as of 10Aug2014: 1) Cacti now better supports hier(7) a) Cacti log files are now found under /var/log/cacti where you can manage them using newsyslog. b) Cacti RRD files are now found under /var/db/cacti/rra. If you have an existing Cacti installation these paths are also found in Cacti's SQL database and MUST be updated. These two SQL commands should do the trick: UPDATE settings SET value='/var/log/cacti/log' \ WHERE name='path_cactilog'; UPDATE poller_item SET rrd_path=\ REPLACE(rrd_path,'/usr/local/share/cacti/rra','/var/db/cacti/rra') \ WHERE rrd_path REGEXP '^/usr/local/share/cacti/rra'; 2) The PERL paths in the Cacti PERL scripts have been updated to /usr/local/bin. Other Erratas: Mount linprocfs in /compat/linux/proc will alow most scripts to work. =======================================================================