Cacti user creation with specific graphs permission Rumi, November 4, 2022 As an admin of cacti you can anything and everything. However, at certain times, you need to create restricted user who has access to only certain graphs of the cacti system. So here goes the steps (this is based on cacti version 1.2.21)- From left menu select Configuration > Users Continue Reading
Install Cacti 1.2 on Debian 11 Rumi, June 17, 2022 First, update the repository index. sudo apt update Install MariaDB Database Install MariaDB from Official MariaDB Mirror Update the repository index and install the required packages. sudo apt update sudo apt install -y software-properties-common dirmngr apt-transport-https wget curl Add signing key to your system. curl -fsSL https://mariadb.org/mariadb_release_signing_key.asc | sudo gpg… Continue Reading
Install SmokePing on CentOS 7 Rumi, August 6, 2021August 7, 2021 This tutorial explains how to install Tobias Oetiker’s Smokeping into /opt/smokeping on a CentOS 7 box. Features of Smokeping: – Best of breed latency visualisation. – Interactive graph explorer. – Wide range of latency measurement plugins. – Master/Slave System for distributed measurement. – Highly configurable alerting system. – Live Latency… Continue Reading
Install Cacti 1.1 on CentOS 7 Rumi, September 2, 2018 Cacti is a free and open source network monitoring and graphing tool written in PHP. With the help of RRDtool (Round-Robin database tool), Cacti can be used to provide various useful features, including remote and local data collectors, graph templating, network discovery, device management automation, etc. Prerequisites A fresh CentOS… Continue Reading
Cacti on Debian (Updated) Rumi, April 19, 2015April 19, 2015 Downloading Cacti You can download the newest version of Cacti from its website. wget http://www.cacti.net/downloads/cacti-0.8.7b.tar.gz Installing Cacti Install apache webserver with php support, mysql database server, snmp, some php modules and rrdtool. apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-cli php5-mysql php5-gd php5-snmp mysql-client mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev snmp snmpd rrdtool Add a user… Continue Reading
Cacti: How to install on Centos 5.x server Rumi, September 11, 2011September 11, 2011 Required software(s) You need to install the following software on RHEL / Fedora / CentOS Linux: MySQL Server : Store cacti data. NET-SNMP server – SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol used for network management. PHP with net-snmp module – Access SNMP data using PHP. Apache / lighttpd… Continue Reading
Cacti: PowerDNS Recursor Templates Rumi, September 11, 2011 Here are a couple of graph templates for the PowerDNS recursor. They need a shell script to be installed on the DNS server, and an net-snmp config change. Add the following to the snmpd.conf extend pdns-rec /usr/local/bin/pdns_stats.sh Put pdns_stats in /usr/local/bin, so that snmpd can find it (rename from pdns_stats.txt)…. Continue Reading
Cacti: How ton install on a Debian server Rumi, September 11, 2011April 19, 2015 ======================================= A Newer version of this document is available at- Cacti on Debian (Updated) ======================================= The following programs are needed to run cacti: – apache2 for the web server – mysql-server for the database – php5 for the server-based script – php5-common – php5-cgi – php5-cli – php5-mysql – snmp… Continue Reading
Upgrading Cacti Rumi, September 4, 2011 Backup the old Cacti database. shell> mysqldump -l –add-drop-table cacti > mysql.cacti Note: You will probably have to specify the -u and -p flags for the MySQL username and password. This user must have permission to read from Cacti's database or you will end up with an empty backup. Backup… Continue Reading