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Install and configure cacti
Is very important have a good tool to monitor our devices in a networking.
Cacti do this and very well. Cacti offers graphs using rrdtool to monitor the
load average, ping latency, disk space and other relevant information over
SNMP protocol. SNMP use the UDP port 161 for read and 162 UDP for
trap, and use a hierarchial database named MIB (Management
Information Base). MIB is a collection of objects and variables that stores
information about an agent.
In our scenario well monitor two servers the NMS server and well add
another one to our network.
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- Install mysql, php, httpd, snmpd and cron:
- Configure EPEL repositories:
- Auto start services:
- Install cacti:
- Database config:
- cron poller.php:
- web files:
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1 # yum install mysql mysql-server httpd php-mysql
php-snmp net-snmp net-snmp-utils cronie
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# rpm -ivh
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-
release-6-5.noarch.rpm
# rpm --import
https://fedoraproject.org/static/217521F6.txt
# yum repolist
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# service mysqld start
# service http start
# service snmpd start
# service crond start
# chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on
# chkconfig --levels 235 snmpd on
# chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on
# chkconfig --levels 235 crond on
1 # yum install rrdtool cacti
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# mysql -u root
mysql> create database cacti;
mysql> grant all on cacti.* to
'cacti'@'localhost' identified by 'cacti';
mysql> quit;
mysql -u root cacti < /usr/share/doc/cacti-
0.8.7i/cacti.sql
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# vi /etc/cron.d/cacti
*/5 * * * * cacti php /usr/share/cacti/poller.php
> /dev/null 2>&1
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# chown -R cacti:root /usr/share/cacti
# vi /usr/share/cacti/include/config.php
1 # vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/cacti.config
1 # vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables
1 # service iptables restart
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check all the tools are installed in our system before install cacti:
- Create graphs:
Management> Devices > device > Add
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Create > new graphs
- SNMP Configuation (server client):
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# yum nstall net-snmp net-snmp-utils
# chkconfig --levels 235 snmpd on
# vi /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
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check we can collect information about this server:
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# service snmpd start
# vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables
1 # service iptables restart
1 # snmpwalk -v 2c -c public 192.168.1.58
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- Add host cacti:
Management > Devices > Add
Create > New Graphs
Management > Graph Trees > Default Tree > Add
- Section graphs:
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Ivan Mora Prez

February 26, 2012

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i have follow you all step same to same as posted by you but i am
unable to load cacti web page
CACTI Blank Page / unable to load
please reply in my email with solution
thanks in advanced
Hello, Ivan!
Could you tell why wouldnt my Cacti be able to determine the
status of CENTOS machine? Did everything like you said, but still
getting Unknown value in the Status column (@Management-
>Devices) and the RTT stays 0 all the time.
Regards,
Alex
I think need to restart the httpd service before or after iptables
change. I also facing that problem. But after restarting the httpd,
it is ok.
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