[HOWTO] Fedora 10 Cacti Installation

[warnesj]

Hey all, it's been a long time since I wrote my first Fedora Core 7 Cacti Installation guide and it's horribly out of date. Since the latest Cacti 0.8.7d RPM packages just made their way into the Yum repositories this past week I thought it was about time that I create a new Fedora 10 Cacti Installation guide. This document is the result of installing Fedora 10 and Cacti (with the Plugin Architecture) on a system from scratch using all packages and Yum.

Again I'll do my best at trying to keep it up to date, but it's huge (and I'm lazy )!

Here is a download link for it - http://lurker.dyndns.org/Cacti Installation on Fedora 10.pdf. I couldn't attach the PDF to my post for some reason. It's only a 750KB file but for whatever reason the forum software thought it was over the 3MB size limit for PDF's. Strange... So I had to host it off my personal web server, hopefully it's not too slow to download. Anyway, enjoy!

I'm looking for comments, content suggestion changes, spelling errors.

Thanks.

[warnesj]

Okay I found a couple mistakes that I fixed up. I was referencing an old SQL file when importing the main Cacti tables into MySQL and my installation of the plugin architecture was....well lets just say it was missing some stuff. I've updated the online copy, so if you've already downloaded it you may want to get it again.

[benoitp]

hello your cacti installation plugin architecture doesn't work I have made all on your pdf but when I install plugin archi I go to http://myserver/cacti and it's write : invalid include/config.php

I don't understand

please help me

[alm]

Hi, Nice manual. I needed an easy way to install and yours was easy to do.

However, I found a mistake or error on page 20 step 16 where you mention the command:

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GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON <cacti_database>.* TO '<cacti_db_user>'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<cacti_db_password>' WITH GRANT OPTION;

But in the command box below it you mention:

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GRANT ALL ON cacti.* to 'cactiuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'cactiuser';

So it looks like you forgot PRIVILEGES and WITH GRANT OPTION in the command box.

I did not do the Plugin part (yet), so cannot say anything about that.

PS. Your instruction also works more or less for CentOS v5.3 (when rpmforge is added to the repositories and some paths are a bit different, but easy to find).

[Palermo]

Hi nice manual.
Im using this voor centos. works fine.
Only when i issue the yum install cacti it downloads the 0.8.7b version.
So this is the older version..
Does anyone has the same problem?

[gandalf]

You may want to call the distro maintainer for Cacti. We only provide the base code, no packages for distros
Reinhard

[alm]

Hi nice manual.
Im using this voor centos. works fine.
Only when i issue the yum install cacti it downloads the 0.8.7b version.
So this is the older version..
Does anyone has the same problem?

No, it installed cacti 0.8.7d in my case. I'm using CentOS 5.3 and used rpmforge.net as an extra repository for cacti and other applications.

[droeun]

Wow, can we get this moved to the contributed docs section? I'm a complete Linux newb & this comprehensive guide walked me through the install from start to finish. I really appreciate your work!

[miono]

I followed your guide on my Fedora 12 and I get a blank page in my browser. what could be the problem??? I'm trying second day in a row to install this cacti on my machine, desperate.

[l33byt]

Now that is interesting as I have just loaded this on fedora 12 and I get a blank screen too.

[gandalf]

Personally, I'd like to improve the official documentation and add hints and caveats for specific distros. This way we have all help available at a central location where people [should|will] search
R.

[miono]

Personally, I'd like to improve the official documentation and add hints and caveats for specific distros. This way we have all help available at a central location where people [should|will] search
R.

That would be a great job. An up to date documentation is anytime welcome. Keep up the good job!

[gandalf]

Personally, I'd like to improve the official documentation and add hints and caveats for specific distros. This way we have all help available at a central location where people [should|will] search
R.

That would be a great job. An up to date documentation is anytime welcome. Keep up the good job!

Yeah, but I need some input from users! Or, better, edit the docs on your own; it's a dokuwiki
R.