Cacti On Centos

[sphillips237]

Hello,

I am trying to install Cacti on Centos 6.02; but, I cannot find any literature on how to complete the install can some assit me please..

Many thanks

[amin17]

I installed cacti 0.8.8a on Centos 6.3.. this was very easy and great.

[phalek]

E.g.: http://blog.network-outsourcing.de/cact ... ing-cacti/

or look through the HowTo section on this forum.

[sphillips237]

Ok, I was able to install Cacti on Centos 6.02. With that being said, I would like some assistance with how to install the plugins. Does anyone have any documentation on how to install and configure the plugins on a Centos platform???

Thanks

[phalek]

Simple:

Download the and extract the plugin to the the "plugins" directory. Then go to Cacti -> Console -> Plugin Management and install/enable it there.

Look here for a more thorough guide: http://docs.cacti.net/plugins.install

[sphillips237]

OK.... but from my Centos environment, I cd /var/www/cacti and did not see a plugins directory.. Centos is running version 0.8.8a of cacti...

Should I mkdir plugin or do I have the wrong software release???

[phalek]

And you did install it by source, right ( e.g. following the blog on network-outsourcing.de ) or did you "yum install" it ?

0.8.8a does contain PIA and the zip as well as the tar archive on the cacti.net page does contain this plugins dir.

Maybe creating the directory works, just try it out and you'll see

[sphillips237]

Yes I did use the yum install comamnd... Before i proceed with this theory, I backup what i have by executing cp -rf cacti cacti-org

Next I will download the PA version, extract it, cp the contents from the PA version to /var/www/cacti

reboot the system and see what happens..

I will let you know the results

[sphillips237]

Ok, I was able to add the preferred plugins. However I logged in and noticed the following errors..

Column 'force' from table 'manage_host' : OK (not here) (0.2/0.5.2)
Table 'manage_host_services' : OK (not here) (0.1/0.5)
Column 'services' from table 'manage_host' : OK (not here) (???/0.5.2)
Table 'manage_device_type' : OK (not here) (0.2/0.5.2)

I also noticed that when I click on the monitor tab all the nice tabs at the top disappear, there is a X beside the words, and also after clicking on syslog, thold and PHP Networking Managing tab, I get a webpage cannot be found message..

I think the way I installed the PA is not accurate.. Read the above message to see how the PA was installed on Centos system..

[phalek]

I'd suggest you install cacti by source instead of using yum so you can follow the documentation and other guides which are based on it

[sphillips237]

I can do that; but, I will need your assisitance on how and where I can get the source instructions from... Are the instructions, on this site or will I have to go to another site.

Please provide me with the URL which will enable me to install Cacti on Centos 6.02

[phalek]

As I posted earlier, either go here:
http://blog.network-outsourcing.de/cact ... ing-cacti/

or look at the HowTo section here in this forum. There are some documents in there as well describing this.

[sphillips237]

Ok... although i have not performed the suggested install from the recommended link. I did notice that this recommendation is not any different from many other Centos installs, which brings me to my next question, how will i successfully install the plugin feature if the URL you provided does not mention anything regarding plugins...

[phalek]

Cacti 0.8.8a from source contains the Plugin Architecture (PIA) so you only need to install Cacti 0.8.8a and then you can follow the guide here:

http://docs.cacti.net/plugins.install

Did you even try installing it ??

[sphillips237]

I am new to this and please forgive for asking a question I should already have the answer to... But your message states source version 0.8.8a already has the PA; therefore, all I will need to do is download the preferred plugins and place the plugin in /var/www/cacti/plugins.. Downloading the plugins is not the concern. My concern is the source version 0.8.8a. Are you saying the yum command will not download the correct PA version and I should use the wget <url:source version 0.8.8a> command to instead..

Should i manually download the *.tgz cacti file and then use tar -zxfc command to extract to /var/www/cacti

Thanks