Introduction
Cacti is a great tool to graph performance of the various hardware components of a network. With the use of the repository manager, it is very simple to install on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or CentOS 5.
Install steps
- First make sure that you have the repository configured in . Edit or create the file :
- Now install the required packages:
- Edit the /etc/httpd/conf.d/cacti.conf file to allow access to cacti as needed.
- Make sure Apache and MySQL are started and set to start automatically:
- Set up the cacti database in MySQL:
- Setup the cacti poll schedule in /etc/crontab:
- Run the cacti installer in the browser: provide the user and password for the database, you can accept all defaults and just click next
- That is it, you are good to go.