[INFO] Cacti 0.8.6j in a Virtual Machine

[knebb]

Yohoo!

I created Cacti 0.8.6j and serveral plugins in a virtual machine (VMware).

It's ready to go. My start with Cacti also was the VM downloaded from the cacti server. I added one example host and some nice graph templates, so startover would be easier than installing from scratch.

568MB in size.

Someone interested? A place where I can drop it for downloading?

If not, I'll keep it for myself

[knebb]

I put it on my server.

But I only have limited traffic, so I will remove it if there will be a lots of downloads.
With bz2 the size decreased to 494MB.

BTW: It's based on CentOS 5.

Comments welcome.

[generic_user]

We P2V'd our Cacti machine and the performance is fine from a processor and memory standpoint but we are running SAN storage and it chewed up the I/O. We have a ton of machines in our infrastructure though... Local or isolated disk might reduce risk or impact.

[Howie]

I put it on my server.

But I only have limited traffic, so I will remove it if there will be a lots of downloads.
With bz2 the size decreased to 494MB.

BTW: It's based on CentOS 5.

Comments welcome.

This is exactly what bittorrent is good for...

[knebb]

SAN storage and it chewed up the I/O.

You could also try to assign enough memory to the CactiVM so it holds most of your RRAs in cache.
Or use some tunig parameters from the filesystem (i.e. noatime, stride=, perhaps reiserfs) they could help a little bit.
Best practice is not to overload a single LUN with tons of VMs. Seperate them. For the most heavy IO load use RAID1, all others usually are fine with RAID5 (or RAID6).

Greets from Ireland

[knebb]

This is exactly what bittorrent is good for...

You're free to put it on a p2p server- I don't want to share it with my home broadband- 256k uplink is too low.
And on my server there is no P2P running.

But there seems to be not so deep interest in it. Up to now, ~5 downloads....

[polletj]

Stupid question of course:

How to set this up in VM ware env?

[oxo-oxo]

Hi
Thanks for making the cactivm
- I use it to test with.

However, if you do it again, I'm missing svn so I can checkout from cacti repository ...

[knebb]

Hi
Thanks for making the cactivm

You're welcome

- I use it to test with.

That's what's it is designed for. I also use is for my production environment.

However, if you do it again, I'm missing svn so I can checkout from cacti repository ...

Ehmm.. just use

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yum install svn

(Not sure if it works, but I think SVN is provided with CentOS5

[oxo-oxo]

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yum install subversion

- now I know how to install in CentOS

And VM works with svn checkout revision 4122.

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html=/var/www/html

cd ${html}

rm -fr cacti

svn checkout svn://svn.cacti.net/var/svnroot/cacti/branches/BRANCH_0_8_6/cacti/

mkdir cacti/log
touch cacti/log/cacti.log

chown -R cactiuser cacti
chgrp -R cactiuser cacti

# Standard procedure from here...

[SoftDux]

Is this a VM for VMWare, but with CentOS installed? Would it run on both a Windows VMWare server & Linux WMWare Server?

[GamBit]

My Cacti-vmware-image from 18-Apr-2006 can still be found at

http://www.cacti.net/downloads/packages/VMware/contrib/

This vmware-image includes all cacti-plugins...

cu
GamBit

[puma5k]

Have a look here
http://cactiusers.org/index.php
it's bootable Cacti CD and allot of extras would be easy to boot into vmware or virtual box

Greatings from Ireland too