equipment resource utilization. We can view utilization graphs of incoming and outgoing traffic on the ports of any networking equipment which supports SNMP ( any of the three versions).
In this post, I shall mention the steps involved in installing and getting Cacti run on a Debian based machine.
1. Prerequisite packages : Apache, Mysql, PHP, Basically if the LAMP package is installed it would suffice. Installing LAMP is very straightforward using tasksel. Run the command and select the LAMP server option as shown
root@fossphosis:~# tasksel
2. Package dependecies to install Cacti: cacti, cacti-cacid, spine, rrdtool
The dependecies are taken care of by APT. So, just type in apt command as shown.
3. While the packages are being installed, certain essential configurations have to be performed.
i) Configuring the MYSQL database entry for Cacti. This can be performed using dbconfig. To do this select the option as shown
ii) Enter the adminsitrative password for MYSQL and also for the user 'cacti'
iii)Select the webserver for running Cacti. Choose Apache2
4. If things have gone fine, without any errors, check the following URL to reach the Cacti Screen
http://localhost/cacti
Congrats :)
5. Now, that we have installed Cacti, some simple basic configurations have to be performed
Finally, click on graphs to see if Cacti is working fine.
After about 30 minutes the resource utilization of the local host can be observed
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