Cacti

Hey Chris, at the moment I only have limited internet access so I can't do in-depth analysis. I only remember that I had the same problem a long time ago and this was due to inproper permissons on the mysql data directory. If I'm not mistaken this is also covered in the MySQL FAQ or documentation. L...

Hi!

Maybe someone else can help you with your problem. I tested both approaches and for me they worked like a charm. I used it after the first install of cacti because I wasn't aware of the default password for admin and so I simply changed it from the mysql prompt.

Good luck,

Lars

Hey Chris, have you also tried the following? update auth_users set password=Password('password') where username='admin'; Your password is stored encrypted in the table auth_users and not in plain text. If this isn't working either you can still try update auth_users set password='' where username='...

Hello again, what is the output of mysqlshow cacti , maybe you are using a different version of cacti. I'm using cacti-0.8. I never used earlier versions, because I just discovered cacti. I just grabbed the sources of an older version (0.6.8a)and there the table is called auth_users Maybe you could ...

Hi, you can connect to your cacti database using something like mysql cacti maybe you need to use the -u and -p flag. When you are connected you can do the following to change your password: update user_auth set password=Password('yournewpassord') where username='admin'; or use update user_auth set ...

Hi, I have just figured it out. When I use snmpv1 with community string everything is fine. When I try to use snmpv3 with user/passphrase it fails. Though snmp from the command line seems to work fine for me. Now the output seems to be ok: [cacti@xena cacti]$ php /var/www/html/cacti/cmd.php X-Powere...

Hi, I just installed cacti-0.8 on my Linux system and played a little around with it. I added graphs for graphing the traffic on eth0. When I run php /var/www/html/cacti/cmd.php, I receive the following output which contains an error and I have no clue, where it comes from. Maybe you can help me wit...