Best distro for Cacti?

techguru69 · Post by **techguru69** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:14 pm

Hi all,
I'm a long-time MRTG admin looking to switch to the much improved and impressive Cacti (Kudos to all the developers!). I currently run Debian but am interested in what your opinions are for the best (easiest install? best package maintained? etc.) distro for a new Cacti install. I'm open to any distro as I have tried a few with MRTG. I have noticed in my research so far that there isn't alot of "customized" install info for different distro's (i.e. Google "debian cacti install" returns almost nothing meaningful).

Let's hear the thoughts, opinions and grumblings!

Thanx!

rdilallo · Post by **rdilallo** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:48 pm

Without sounding too much like a lemming, I have great success with both Fedora 3 & 4. I've also set up cacti with slackware, but had more trouble with that over Fedora. Gentoo has a pretty smooth install as well. Everyone's going to have their own flavor... I chose Fedora because of the community's support for the OS.

Post by **Linegod** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:20 pm

Personally, I use Mandriva and the Mandriva RPMs of Cacti. Works like a charm...

Frances · Post by **Frances** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:32 am

I've had fairly good luck with CentOS 4.0, which is essentially RHEL repackaged free of charge. The product has the same EOL as RHEL, so security updates, et al, will be released for seven years. Most of the 'RHELx' or 'ELx' packages are compatible with CentOS 4.0 (like the ones Dag builds -- many of the dependencies of Cacti). I'd install the deps from Dag's RPM's and Cacti from the tarball, since it'll get you used to the upgrade process, which is important. I'd say CentOS is dramatically more suited to a production environment than FCx, which is essentially a testbed.

Wido · Post by **Wido** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 5:59 pm

I run cacti on Debian Sarge without any troubles at all.

Installed cacti (just untarred the files) en run it with cactid.

Runs like the sun!

spoonman · Post by **spoonman** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:13 pm

I also run Cacti on Debian Sarge, I had issues at first, but it was just permissions, but once I figured them out no problems!! Cacti is the PIMP!!!

ahumado · Post by **ahumado** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:48 pm

Ran into trouble with Mandrake 10. Glad to hear Mandriva is working well.

Running fine on Fedora 3

andrew2 · Post by **andrew2** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 12:51 pm

You really shouldn't have trouble with most any distro. As long as you can get PHP, NetSNMP, and apache going, everything should work fine with just about any flavor of Linux.

Andrew

stevew · Post by **stevew** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:55 pm

And it also works very well with FreeBSD.

krzn · Post by **krzn** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:57 am

Hey!

I'm running Cacti on a virtual SLES 9-Machine! Work's fine!
And you can create weekly backups easiely! Very important!

KRZN

Post by **rony** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:15 am

There isn't a distro I haven't had cacti working on.

But, to add, I develop on a Suse 9.2 box.

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