need an idiots guide to intalling cacti

lynnrctc · Post by **lynnrctc** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 1:07 pm

Hello all,

I am going to try and install cacti on one of our linux based servers,
I am running ubuntu 6.1, just looking for a little step by step on how to get all the apache, etc loaded on before loading cacti. Any help would be apprieciated.

thanks

Axilla · Post by **Axilla** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 2:39 pm

google.com is your friend.

Setup a LAMP server
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP

Howie · Post by **Howie** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 3:43 pm

If it's a new install, and that's a new server (sounds like it is), then you would do well to start by choosing an OS that isn't 4 years old, and 2 years past the end of it's support

It will only make updating it difficult, which will make it less secure.

According to Wikipedia: "Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft), released on 26 October 2006,was Canonical's fifth release of Ubuntu. Ubuntu 6.10's support ended on 25 April 2008."

Try 10.04, supported until 2015...

Axilla · Post by **Axilla** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 4:19 pm

I would switch to a BSD, Fedora, Red Hat, or CentOS as well, but that is just me. I run CentOS myself and LOVE it.

lynnrctc · Post by **lynnrctc** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 4:33 pm

ok have decided to go the latest version of ubuntu and have nagios installed and running any issues with running the two together?

Axilla · Post by **Axilla** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 7:34 am

lynnrctc wrote:ok have decided to go the latest version of ubuntu and have nagios installed and running any issues with running the two together?

nope there is a plugin for cacti to pull in and graph nagios data as well.

DeeL · Post by **DeeL** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:30 pm

lynnrctc wrote:just looking for a little step by step on how to

You might find this post usefull then :
http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=38633

I know I know promoting one of my own post is clearly not the best thing I've done, but you'll probably find what you need there so...

regards,

Deel

DeeL · Post by **DeeL** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:38 pm

lynnrctc wrote:ok have decided to go the latest version of ubuntu and have nagios installed and running any issues with running the two together?

Depends on the machine running both apps and on how many hosts you're going to poll, with a dedicated decent machine it won't be a problem if it's a small to medium network.

A debian VM box (a 2.66ghz core, 512Mb ram) can handle quite properly about 50 servers (about 10 standard graphs per server) or so with both cacti and nagios, but don't expect too much in such a configuration.

in such a configuration forget about the realtime plugin on several hosts it just won't work ^^

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