Linux cacti installation configuration and simple monitoring example

First, Introduction

Cacti is a set of graphical analysis tools for network traffic monitoring based on PHP,MYSQL,SNMP and RRDtool development.

Second, the installation

Installation Environment: CentOS6.0 32bit

1, installation of related packages:

Yum install http* mysql* php-* net-snmp* httpd gcc glibc glibc-common gd gd-devel php php-gd ntp-y
Yum Install RRDtool rrdtool-devel rrdtool-php-y

2, download cacti

wget http://www.cacti.net/downloads/cacti-0.8.7h.tar.gz
Tar zxvf cacti-0.8.7i.tar.gz
MV Cacti-0.8.7i/var/www/html/cacti

3, create cacti database, authorization, import Database

Mysql-p
mysql> CREATE database cacti;
Mysql> grant all privileges in cacti.* to ' cactiuser ' @ ' localhost ' identified by ' cactiuser ';
Mysql> grant all privileges in cacti.* to ' cactiuser ' @ ' 127.0.0.1 ' identified by ' cactiuser ';
mysql> flush Privileges;
mysql> use cacti;
Mysql> Source/var/www/html/cacti/cacti.sql;

4, modify the cacti configuration file:

vi/var/www/html/cacti/include/config.php

5, modify RRA, log directory permissions:

chmod 777/var/www/html/cacti/rra/var/www/html/cacti/log
Chown Apache.apache/var/www/html/cacti-r

6, set the timing task to generate cacti monitoring image:

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

7, browser configuration installation cacti:

Make sure the relevant files are found:

The default account password is admin:

The first login cacti will force the user to modify the password:

Cacti interface:

Configure SNMP:

Restart SNMP after configuration is complete:

Service SNMPD Restart

Check to see if SNMP is configured successfully:

Snmpwalk-c public-v 2c 127.0.0.1

Finally log on to the Web, click on the top right corner of graph to see the monitor image of the computer: