Chapter 2. Installing Under Unix

1. Extract the distribution tarball.

shell

>

tar xzvf cacti version.tar.gz

2. Create the MySQL database:

shell

>

mysqladmin   user=root create cacti

3. Import the default cacti database:

shell

>

mysql cacti

<

cacti.sql

4. Optional: Create a MySQL username and password for Cacti.

shell

>

mysql   user=root mysql

mysql

>

GRANT ALL ON cacti.* TO cactiuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'somepassword';

mysql

>

flush privileges;

5. Edit

include/config.php

and specify the MySQL user, password and database for your Cacti configuration.

$database_default = "cacti";

$database_hostname = "localhost";

$database_username = "cactiuser";

$database_password = "cacti";

6. Set the appropriate permissions on cacti's directories for graph/log generation. You should execute these com 

mands from inside cacti's directory to change the permissions.

shell

>

chown  R cactiuser rra/ log/

(Enter a valid username for cactiuser, this user will also be used in the next step for data gathering.)

7. Add a line to your

/etc/crontab

file similar to:

*/5 * * * * cactiuser php /var/www/html/cacti/poller.php

>

/dev/null 2

>

&1

Replace cactiuser with the valid user specified in the previous step.

Replace

/var/www/html/cacti/

with your full Cacti path.

8. Point your web browser to:

http://your server/cacti/

Log in the with a username/password of admin. You will be required to change this password immediately.

Make sure to fill in all of the path variables carefully and correctly on the following screen.

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