How to install cacti under Gentoo system

Cacti is a network traffic monitoring graphical analysis tool, need to use the PHP language to achieve, installation needs to configure the database, so many people in the installation of the time encountered a lot of problems, the following small series to introduce the next in the Gentoo system to install the cacti.

Cacti is the use of SQL database to save configuration information, using cron scheduling poller.php, through SNMP polling device information, using RRDtool storage information to RRA, and then in the form of Image Display network management system. With Plug-ins to expand, such as Weathermap can draw a beautiful network topology map.

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1, installation

#emerge cacti

2. Configure permissions

Establish cacti group and cactiuser users

#groupadd cacti

#useradd-G cacti-g Cron Cactiuser

#cd/var/www/localhost/htdocs/cacti

#chown-R Cactiuser rra/log/

This step is important if there is a situation where the image does not appear as a red fork, which is generally not done.