Recommended linux distribution to run cacti?

[jagbarcelo]

First of all, hi all and thanks for supporting such a good tool.

I've been using it for several years under Win32 but since cacti, and all the accompanying stuff are linux-based-things, I have had always headaches everytime I needed to touch/define/programm anything.

Now I'm thinking about running a virtual server with a linux distribution on one of our real-hardware servers and I'd like to hear the cacti community about their own linux distributions. I'd like to use the simpliest/easiest linux distribution to run cacti (only cacti... well apache, php, etc.. will be needed also). The server will not be exposed to the internet so security, automatic patching updates, etc., though important, is not the key point. Since I am a Win32 user, easy administration of the server IS important.

Any recomendation? Thanks in advance.

[gandalf]

You will ove the CactiEZ CD. It's a complete CentOS based cacti distribution with everything set up for an immediate start.
ATTENTION! It will PARTITION your primary hard disk! Use it on a dedicated system or as a VM Guest. Find it at http://cactiusers.org
Reinhard

[s.gosenheimer]

Yes,

i think really the easiest way for you ist CactiEZ CD like gandalf said.

On the other hand just use the distribution which you like. I think cacti is so
flexible thats it's up to your own.

About myself: I'm using debian, because it's since years my favorite distribution. So it's your decision !

Kind regards,
sebastian

[s.gosenheimer]

duoblepost ... sorry

[super-hornet]

I choose openSUSE 10.2 (10.0 will work also) because I like openSUSE and it has all the necessary libraries in RPM that I needed to run the cacti.

SH

[gandalf]

That's surely a good choice. But cacti is well supported for many linux distributions, *BSD, MacOS and even HP-UX and Solaris (though only seldomly posted). So the answer to the original question is most often a bit biased
Reinhard