CactiEZ CD v0.1

abadaba · Post by **abadaba** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:25 pm

With this version of Cacti...In CactiEZ i can't get the memory info from my windows boxes...Is there any reason for that...? I know they are two sides of the planet, but there has too be way too get Win info about memory, from inside of NIX

cigamit · Post by **cigamit** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:36 pm

abadaba wrote:With this version of Cacti...In CactiEZ i can't get the memory info from my windows boxes...Is there any reason for that...? I know they are two sides of the planet, but there has too be way too get Win info about memory, from inside of NIX

Search is your friend
http://cactiusers.org/forums/topic339.html

cigamit · Post by **cigamit** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:05 pm

Thought I would drop an update and let everyone know that I did a complete audit of the packages included in the CD, and dropped the total installed packages from 305 to 252 (even after adding a few extras). There are still a few non-essential packages but possibly useful packages, so I left them. My only debate now is whether we really need over 5 different shells?

This number may change before the next release, as I add and remove more default applications, but the CD is definitely shrinking in size at this time, which will make my webhost extremely happy!

mie_morello · Post by **mie_morello** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:33 pm

hai.....
i'm new to this CactiEZ.....could anyone show....tell me how to use this CactiEZ.......is there a manual for this CactiEZ.....how to graph the device?
hope someone can help me on this

cigamit · Post by **cigamit** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:57 pm

mie_morello wrote:hai.....
i'm new to this CactiEZ.....could anyone show....tell me how to use this CactiEZ.......is there a manual for this CactiEZ.....how to graph the device?
hope someone can help me on this

The documentation should about answer your questions
http://cactiusers.org/wiki/CactiEZ

kbrookov · Post by **kbrookov** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:15 am

Just wanted to say thanks for this, I had Cacti up and running in under 30 minutes. I was looking for a way to monitor CBWFQ, i got that done off another thread on this forum. Now just need to get all my devices added

...

Anyway - the setup was flawless, worked like a champ!

Makenshi · Post by **Makenshi** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:42 am

I have created a virtual machine for vmware using the cactiez cd.

Download:-
http://cacti.ne-worcs.ac.uk/blog/static ... x86%29.zip

Info:-
http://cacti.ne-worcs.ac.uk/blog/?p=167

All you need to use this image is the free VMware Player or Server software which is available for Windows and Linux.

Post by **TheWitness** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:21 am

What's the root password?

Larry

Makenshi · Post by **Makenshi** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:46 am

Taken from http://cactiusers.org/wiki/CactiEZInfo

To login to the OS (you will want to change this)
user: root
pass: CactiEZ

cigamit · Post by **cigamit** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:31 pm

I should have a new beta up in the next few days (Monday?).

Current Stats
291 MB ISO
248 Packages
770 MB Installed

Major Changes
Removed lots of unnecessary packages
Nagios installed and "preconfigured"
Msyslog swapped out for Syslog-NG, and appropriate webmin module loaded
NTop is still installed, but now not running by default (uses lots of memory and kinda redundant since you have netflow!)
Shows IP Address at login screen
Much prettier Webmin theme, removed all unnecessary modules
Now built off the ServerCD so that it now contains more Raid drivers (Sans, etc...)
Dropped support for old 486 through P2 systems.
Major changes to Netflow collection (including dropped the MySQL database as it would get HUGE)
Lots and lots and lots of minor changes

Please note, there will NOT be an upgrade script to go from v0.1 to this CD. There are way too many changes to make it work correctly (and too time consuming for me, I have to feed my family too!), and it would probably break more installations than it would "fix" (especially if you have customized it in anyway).

Post by **TheWitness** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:40 am

Jimmy,

What version of Centos?

Larry

cigamit · Post by **cigamit** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:13 pm

TheWitness wrote:Jimmy,

What version of Centos?

Larry

CentOS 4.4 with all the updated packages.

egarnel · Post by **egarnel** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:12 am

cigamit wrote:I should have a new beta up in the next few days (Monday?).

Current Stats
291 MB ISO
248 Packages
770 MB Installed

Major Changes
Removed lots of unnecessary packages
Nagios installed and "preconfigured"
Msyslog swapped out for Syslog-NG, and appropriate webmin module loaded
NTop is still installed, but now not running by default (uses lots of memory and kinda redundant since you have netflow!)
Shows IP Address at login screen
Much prettier Webmin theme, removed all unnecessary modules
Now built off the ServerCD so that it now contains more Raid drivers (Sans, etc...)
Dropped support for old 486 through P2 systems.
Major changes to Netflow collection (including dropped the MySQL database as it would get HUGE)
Lots and lots and lots of minor changes

Please note, there will NOT be an upgrade script to go from v0.1 to this CD. There are way too many changes to make it work correctly (and too time consuming for me, I have to feed my family too!), and it would probably break more installations than it would "fix" (especially if you have customized it in anyway).

Jimmy,

Will there be a mysql backend to nagios? or some other host management for nagios?

Thanks for all your hard work on this

galamayur · Post by **galamayur** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:49 am

Hi,

It was gr8 to see this product installed in seconds with the .iso file you have provided... Gr8..

the biggest factor i liked is netflow.. i dont know much on how to integrate it with ntop but firstly now i will migrate to your version.
I was previously running cacti on widows now as i saw the version you have build i would like to shift from widows to Linux..

i have following questions now
i need my existing database to be used.. so how do i go about it... & graphs
I have just basic info on linux platform
Would request you to help me in migrating from windows to Linux.

mcutting · Post by **mcutting** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:08 am

For this to work, you need to do the following things:

1. Backup your existing CACTI database on the Windows box. You can do this with phpMyAdmin, as it's much easier than from the command line.
2. On the windows box, backup your scripts, resource, and RRA files
3. Take a backup of the CACTI database on the Linux box
4. Drop the database on the Linux box
5. Create a new CACTI database on the linux box
6. Import the backed up DB from the Windows box into MySQL (on the Linux box) using phpMyAdmin
7. Copy over the RRA files and any scripts that you were using on the Windows box.
8. CHMOD the files and directories on the Linux box so that they can be read by user "apache"

Hope this helps.

Cacti

CactiEZ CD v0.1

THANKS!

Windows to Linux

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