How to upgrade Cacti (0.8.3a) as installed on Sentinix

[gert5142]

Hi,

I'm running a Cacti server which has been installed using the latest Sentinix "distribution" (http://www.sentinix.org). It is 0.70.5.

Unfortunately it comes with Cacti 0.8.3a installed. Now since I'm rather new to Linux: my question is how do upgrade this 0.8.3a code to the latest (or a more recent) version.

First of all there are RPMs for the different versions of redhat and Fedora. But I don't know what distro Sentinix is based on.

I also tried to install Cacti on a new Debian system, but I didn't succeed. I also noticed that Sentinix is no more continued. Does anyone know of another distro that has Cacti included and preconfigured (like Sentinix)?

Thanx in advance for any help

[TheWitness]

You might want to e-mail the Sentinex guys since they may be hacking Cacti. If that's not the case, you should simply be able to
1) disable cron for a bit,
2) overlay the PHP files on top of the existing installation,
3) rename include/config.php.dist to include/config.php, change it's values,
4) goto the web site and login/upgrade,
5) change your cron to schedule "php poller.php" instead of either cmd.php or cactid.
6) upgrade Cactid if you are using it.
7) re-enable cron

I might be missing a few steps, but in a nutshell, that's it.

TheWitness

[joelm]

From what I understand, sentinix is an LFS (Linux from scratch), therefore the RPM's not going to work.


If you want a similar kind of OS then try Gentoo (my fave) or is you want the ease of binary RPMs then try Fedora or Suse

[TheWitness]

I would agree. Your realy need to download the Gzip and follow my instructions above.

TheWitness

[elnino]

Hi,

I'm running a Cacti server which has been installed using the latest Sentinix "distribution" (http://www.sentinix.org). It is 0.70.5.

Unfortunately it comes with Cacti 0.8.3a installed. Now since I'm rather new to Linux: my question is how do upgrade this 0.8.3a code to the latest (or a more recent) version.

gert5142, I'm running Sentinix 0.70.5 at work and have the newest version of Cacti running. If you need any help getting yours upgraded, just send me a message, I'd be glad to help out.