#HOW TO INSTALL CACTI ON CENTOS 7 UPDATE#
#HOW TO INSTALL CACTI ON CENTOS 7 PASSWORD#

#HOW TO INSTALL CACTI ON CENTOS 7 UPDATE#

# mysql РІР‚вЂњuser=root РІР‚вЂњpassword=samplepass cacti GRANT ALL ON cacti.* TO IDENTIFIED BY РІР‚ВsamplepassРІР‚в„ў Р”В®dit /var/www/html/cacti/include/config.php with your favorite editor, and update the information to reflect our cacti configuration (you can leave the other text in the file alone): # mysqladmin РІР‚вЂњuser=root РІР‚вЂњpassword=samplepass create cactiР”В¬hange directories to the cacti directory, and use the cacti.sql file to create tables for your database:

#HOW TO INSTALL CACTI ON CENTOS 7 PASSWORD#

# /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password samplepass # chown -R cactiuser rra/ log/Р”В¬reate a mysql root password, if you havenРІР‚в„ўt already (password in this example is samplepass:

# /usr/sbin/useradd -g cacti cactiuserР”В¬hange the ownership of the /var/www/html/cacti / rra/ and /var/www/html/cacti / log/ directories to the cactiuser we just created : It was here that I noticed that my install did not have any of the /sbin directories in its $PATH, so I simply typed the absolute path: I chose to create a РІР‚ВcactiuserРІР‚в„ў user (and cacti group) to run cacti commands and to have ownership of the relavent cacti files. Move the entire cacti directory to /var/www/html/ : You could do this in the command line, if you wanted to: I also renamed the cacti-0.8.7e directory by right clicking and selecting РІР‚СљRenameРІР‚Сњ. I downloaded it to my desktop and unzipped it by right clicking it and selecting РІР‚СљExtract hereРІР‚Сњ. Package rrdtool-1.3.i386 already installed and latest versionР”Вownload the latest version of Cacti (0.8.7e, as of the writing of this article) from here. Package perl-rrdtool-1.3.i386 already installed and latest version Package initscripts-8.45.386 already installed and latest version Package php-snmp-5.1.6-23.2.el5_3.i386 already installed and latest version Package 1:net-snmp-utils-5.3.2.2-5.el5_3.1.i386 already installed and latest version Package 1:net-snmp-5.3.2.2-5.el5_3.1.i386 already installed and latest version Package 2:vim-enhanced-7.0.109-4.el5_2.4z.i386 already installed and latest version Package php-mysql-5.1.6-23.2.el5_3.i386 already installed and latest version Package mysql-server-5.0.386 already installed and latest version Package mysql-5.0.386 already installed and latest version Package httpd-2.2.1.i386 already installed and latest version Package php-5.1.6-23.2.el5_3.i386 already installed and latest version Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities # yum install php httpd mysql mysql-server php-mysql vim-enhanced net-snmp net-snmp-utils php-snmp initscripts perl-rrdtool rrdtool initscripts You can verify that you have the packages in question (or the version numbers of installed packages) by attempting to install them, as yum will remind you that you already have the latest version installed, as well as the version status of the packages, like shown here: I installed everything but cacti through yum. I then typed yum update to update CentOS and the repository list before installing additional software. Be warned that the above text containing the repository is version and architecture-specific. You can create this file by typing vim /etc//dag.repo and copying and pasting the above information into the file. name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl= gpgcheck=1 gpgkey= enabled=1 ( /etc//dag.repo ) containing Dag Wiers repository, which contains rrdtool, among other things. I added a new repository to facilitate this install. I had already installed apache, mysql, and PHP during the original install process of CentOS 5.2. To perform this install, I am logged into Gnome as a normal user, and opened a terminal that is switched to the root user using the su command.

IРІР‚в„ўd also recommend installing vim, net-snmp, net-snmp-utils, php-snmp, initscripts, perl-rrdtool, and any dependencies. PHP 4.3.6 or greater, 5.x greater highly recommended for advanced features

How to install cacti on centos 7