Install cacti in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Server

Preparing Your system

First you need to make sure you have install Ubuntu 9.10 LAMP server and then you need to install the following packages

sudo apt-get install php5 php5-gd php5-mysql

Install accti using the following command

sudo apt-get install cacti-spine

This will start installing cacti and prompt for some questions.

Configuring libphp-adodb option select ok Enter to Continue.

Select your webserver in this example we are using apache2 select ok Enter to Continue

Configure database for cacti select yes Enter to Continue

Enter the root password for your mysql server select ok Enter to Continue

Enter the password (cacti) for the cacti database,select ok Enter to Continue

Re-enter your password

This will complete the cacti installation.

Configuring Cacti

Now you need to point your browser http://serverip/cacti press enter.You should see similar to the following screen Click Next to Continue.

You need to select the type of installation as New Installation and click next to Continue.

Now it will check all the required paths are correct or not you can see this in the following screen here click

on Finish

Now you should see the Cacti Login screen as follows

Here you need to enter username and password as admin/admin and click login

First time it will prompt you to change cacti admin user password for security reasons and click save

You should see the following screen like below once you logged.

In the above screen Under Configuration Click settings on your right hand side click on paths.Make sure in the "Spine Poller File Path”, you have

"/usr/sbin/spine”

Now you need to click on Poller Select "spine” in the "Poller Type”,click on Save.

Now you need to wait for 15 min to see your server graphs starts appearing in cacti graphs.Now your Cacti Monitoring Server is Ready and if you want to know how use cacti graphs and templates check here