New in Cacti....

[AjdinGH]

Hello,

we want to use Cacti for monitoring switches and routers in our network and we have one server CentOS 6.7 with have some apps that are work and that are important.
So I want to ask is it safe to run yum install cacti because we don't want to lose and content on server and also does anyone have step by step guide to install and configure Cacti on Centos 6.7.

best regards.

[cigamit]

CentOS 6 reaches EOL in November 2020. I would recommend you build out a new server with an updated OS on it.

[bmfmancini]

On top of what Thewitness said

you need to plan ahead for how large of an install you need

Cacti does best when its on its own so I wouldn't go mixing it with other critical apps maybe launch its own VM
Centos 7 or latest Ubuntu I have run both but RHEL/Centos seems to run better ( Could be my bias opinion )

Also I prefer source over the package for cacti since updates are done almost weekly and the packages just don't keep up with that
if you find a bug and want it fixed its easier to git that file with the update than wait for the package to be updated

Hope this helps !

[netniV]

Also I prefer source over the package for cacti since updates are done almost weekly and the packages just don't keep up with that
if you find a bug and want it fixed its easier to git that file with the update than wait for the package to be updated

Hope this helps !

I'll take this a stage further, for any of my clients, I always use Git to keep sources up to date by cloning and then checking out release tags to move between versions. This has the advantage that I can roll back the sources quite quickly and the DB restore in a couple of commands.