<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Install and Configure Cacti</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The Cacti Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Installing Under Unix" HREF="install_unix.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Configure MySQL" HREF="unix_configure_mysql.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="(Optional) Install and Configure Spine" HREF="unix_configure_spine.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="manual.css"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The Cacti Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="unix_configure_mysql.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 2. Installing Under Unix</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="unix_configure_spine.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="UNIX_CONFIGURE_CACTI" >Install and Configure Cacti</A ></H1 ><P ></P ><OL TYPE="1" ><LI ><P >Extract the distribution tarball.</P ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" ><SAMP CLASS="PROMPT" >shell></SAMP > <KBD CLASS="USERINPUT" >tar xzvf cacti-version.tar.gz</KBD ></PRE ></LI ><LI ><P >Create the MySQL database:</P ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" ><SAMP CLASS="PROMPT" >shell></SAMP > <KBD CLASS="USERINPUT" >mysqladmin --user=root create cacti</KBD ></PRE ></LI ><LI ><P >Import the default cacti database:</P ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" ><SAMP CLASS="PROMPT" >shell></SAMP > <KBD CLASS="USERINPUT" >mysql cacti < cacti.sql</KBD ></PRE ></LI ><LI ><P > Optional: Create a MySQL username and password for Cacti. </P ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" ><SAMP CLASS="PROMPT" >shell></SAMP > <KBD CLASS="USERINPUT" >mysql --user=root mysql</KBD > <SAMP CLASS="PROMPT" >mysql></SAMP > <KBD CLASS="USERINPUT" >GRANT ALL ON cacti.* TO cactiuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'somepassword';</KBD > <SAMP CLASS="PROMPT" >mysql></SAMP > <KBD CLASS="USERINPUT" >flush privileges;</KBD ></PRE ></LI ><LI ><P > Edit <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >include/config.php</TT > and specify the database type, name, host, user and password for your Cacti configuration. </P ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" ><KBD CLASS="USERINPUT" >$database_type = "mysql"; $database_default = "cacti"; $database_hostname = "localhost"; $database_username = "cactiuser"; $database_password = "cacti";</KBD ></PRE ></LI ><LI ><P > Set the appropriate permissions on cacti's directories for graph/log generation. You should execute these commands from inside cacti's directory to change the permissions. </P ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" ><SAMP CLASS="PROMPT" >shell></SAMP > <KBD CLASS="USERINPUT" >chown -R cactiuser rra/ log/</KBD ></PRE ><P > (Enter a valid username for <B CLASS="EMPHASIS" >cactiuser</B >, this user will also be used in the next step for data gathering.) </P ></LI ><LI ><P > Add a line to your <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/crontab</TT > file similar to: </P ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >*/5 * * * * cactiuser php /var/www/html/cacti/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1</PRE ><P > Replace <B CLASS="EMPHASIS" >cactiuser</B > with the valid user specified in the previous step. </P ><P > Replace <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/var/www/html/cacti/</TT > with your full Cacti path. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > Point your web browser to: </P ><A NAME="AEN225" ></A ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="BLOCKQUOTE" ><P > http://your-server/cacti/ </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ><P > Log in the with a username/password of <B CLASS="EMPHASIS" >admin</B >. You will be required to change this password immediately. Make sure to fill in all of the path variables carefully and correctly on the following screen. </P ></LI ></OL ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="unix_configure_mysql.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="unix_configure_spine.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Configure MySQL</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="install_unix.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >(Optional) Install and Configure <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Spine</SPAN ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >
