Cacti 0.8.6 pre-installed on GoGrid Community Image

[zwilliamson]

Recently I installed and pre-configured Cacti on a CentOS 5.5 64bit server on GoGrid. I saved the image and made it public to anyone who uses GoGrid for their cloud hosting infrastructure.

More information on this Cacti GoGrid Community GSI can be found here:

http://blog.gogrid.com/2011/05/19/set-u ... ver-image/

My question is - Should I leave the saved image with just the base host, data, and graph templates? Or should I add some commonly used ones that aren't contained in the base installation of Cacti 0.8.6?

Let me know what you think.

Thanks!
Zane

[BSOD2600]

You do realize the current cacti version is 0.8.7g, right? Your installation is a wee bit dated for people to use.

[zwilliamson]

You are right - I will deploy and save a Cacti 0.8.7g install.

Can I ask you a couple questions?

- what is the linux OS to run Cacti on? Is their advantages to using an RPM based distro vs. an Aptitude?
- should I just leave the install with the base level templates or are there some commonly used templates that would be handy to have pre-installed?

Thanks for your feedback.

-Z

[zwilliamson]

Edit
** what is the best linux distro to run Cacti on?

[gandalf]

The best one is the one that you know best, assuming it fulfills the requirements (e.g. php, mysql and stuff).
We strongly encourage using latest stable releases of php and mysql.
Personally, I run Fedora since long, CactiEZ is based on CentOS.
I know that people had issues on *BSD and Solaris. I did never use them, so I can't tell you whether this has been solved.
Unfortunately, Debian based packages use a different file layout (no, I won't flame debian for this). This can be handled, but sometimes it brings you trouble.
And please don't ask me about windows; BSOD2600 is the one who provided an all-in MSI installer package. But rrdtool support for windows is not bleeding edge
R.