Cacti Installation with Centos 6 Part2

First part, we installed required components for Cacti. In this part, we’ll install and configure Cacti.
After MySQL installation, first we should set MySQL root password.

1 2	mysqladmin --user=root password p@ssw0rd! mysqladmin --user=root --password reload

Let’s download latest Cacti release.

1 2	cd /home wget http://www.cacti.net/downloads/cacti-0.8.7g.tar.gz

Untar tar ball.

1 2	tar -zxvf cacti-0.8.7g.tar.gz cd cacti-0.8.7g

Create the MySQL database for Cacti. You have to type your root password to create database.

mysqladmin --user=root create cacti --password

Import the default Cacti database.

mysql -u root -p cacti < cacti.sql

Create a MySQL username and password for Cacti for security reasons.

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mysql -u root -p mysql GRANT ALL ON cacti.* TO cactiuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'cactipass!'; flush privileges; exit

Edit “include/config.php” and specify the database type, name, host, user and password for your Cacti configuration.

nano include/config.php

$database_type = “mysql”;
$database_default = “cacti”;
$database_hostname = “localhost”;
$database_username = “cactiuser”;
$database_password = “cactipass!”;

Move Cacti files into /var/www/html for web access.

1 2	cd /home mv /home/cacti-0.8.7g /var/www/html/cacti

Go into Cacti directory and set the appropriate permissions for graph/log generation.

1 2	cd /var/www/html chown -R apache:apache cacti

Add a line to your ”/etc/crontab” file.

nano /etc/crontab

*/5 * * * * cactiuser /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/cacti/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1

Disable SeLinux to web restrictions.

nano /etc/sysconfig/selinux

SELINUX=disabled

Reboot your server to apply changes. After reboot, go to php.ini configuration and change timezone.

nano /etc/php.ini

date.timezone = “Europe/Istanbul”

We finished Cacti installation. Now go to your web browser and connect to http://yourserverip/cacti.

Choose “New Install” and click next.

Correct RRDTool default path.

RRDTool Binary Path: /usr/local/rrdtool/bin/rrdtool

Now Cacti is online!

You can login to Cacti with default username and password. After your first login, you should change password.

username: admin
password: admin

Now you can start adding your graphs :)