Chapter 3. Installing Under Windows

3. Under the ISAPI Filters tab, click Add and browse to the

php4isapi.dll

or

php5isapi.dll

file. Name the filter

"php" and click OK.

4. Under the Documents tab, add

index.php

to the list.

5. Completely stop and start the IIS service using the following commands:

net stop iisadmin

net start w3svc

6. Give the IUSR_XXXX user read and execute permissions to the file

c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe

.

Install RRDTool

1. Extract the RRDTool zip file to

c:\rrdtool

and copy

c:\rrdtool\src\tool_release\rrdtool.exe

to

c:\rrdtool

.

Install MySQL

1. Extract the MySQL zip file to a temp directory and run

setup.exe

.

2. Install MySQL to the

c:\mysql

directory.

3. Start MySQL by running

c:\mysql\bin\winmysqladmin.exe

.

4. Set a password for the root user

shell

>

cd mysql\bin

shell

>

mysqladmin   user=root password somepassword

shell

>

mysqladmin   user=root   password reload

5. Create the MySQL database:

shell

>

mysqladmin   user=root   password create cacti

6. Import the default Cacti database:

shell

>

mysql   user=root   password cacti

<

c:\apache2\htdocs\cacti\cacti.sql

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

shell

>

mysql   user=root   password mysql

mysql

>

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

mysql

>

flush privileges;

Install Net SNMP

1. If you plan to use any hosts with SNMP v2c support, you must download and install the

Net SNMP

libraries.

Net SNMP

provides installers to install their product. However, caution must be taken not to use long file

names as Cacti does not support them in this version. We suggest you install

Net SNMP

in a directory such as

c:\net snmp

.

Install Cactid

1. Extract the Cactid zip file to

c:\cactid

and modify the

cactid.conf

file to include the following statements.

DB_Host IP_Address or Hostname (not localhost)

DB_Database cacti

DB_User cactiuser

DB_Password cacti

All other pre 0.8.6 settings are obsolete. Cactid may not complain if you leave them in, but they are not longer

required. Cactid now comes with a binary distribution. Therefore, a full installation of

Cygwin

is not longer

required.

2. If you either have

Cygwin

installed, or plan on installing it, remove the 3 DLL files and the SH.EXE file from the

c:\cactid

directory.

Install Cacti

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