Installing Cacti with Spine Poller from Source

Installing Cacti and Spine from Source                                         

1. Required Libraries / Tools
1. Mysql
2. Php
3. Snmp
4. HTTP
5. Miscellaneous libraries associated with above packages
2. Pre-work

Install Apache

# yum install httpd httpd-devel

Install MySQL

# yum install mysql mysql-server

Install PHP

# yum install php-mysql php-pear php-common php-gd php-devel php php-mbstring php-cli php-mysql

Install PHP-SNMP

# yum install php-snmp

Install NET-SNMP

# yum install net-snmp-utils p net-snmp-libs php-pear-Net-SMTP

Install RRDTool

# yum install rrdtool

# Recompiling PHP with socket support (if not)

./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --with-mysql=/usr/include/mysql --prefix=/usr/local/apache/php --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache/php --enable-force-cgi-redirect --disable-cgi --with-zlib --with-gettext --with-gdbm -enable-sockets

1. ./Configure  /* creates Make Config file

2.make   /* Builds using MakeConfig file

3. make install  /* Installs Software

Installing PHP SAPI module:       apache2handler

/usr/local/apache/build/instdso.sh SH_LIBTOOL='/usr/local/apache/build/libtool' libphp5.la /usr/local/apache/modules

/usr/local/apache/build/libtool --mode=install cp libphp5.la /usr/local/apache/modules/

cp .libs/libphp5.so /usr/local/apache/modules/libphp5.so

cp .libs/libphp5.lai /usr/local/apache/modules/libphp5.la

libtool: install: warning: remember to run `libtool --finish /admin/scripts/home/tac/php-5.3.1/libs'

chmod 755 /usr/local/apache/modules/libphp5.so

[activating module `php5' in /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf]

Installing PHP CLI binary:        /usr/local/apache/php/bin/

Installing PHP CLI man page:      /usr/local/apache/php/man/man1/

Installing build environment:     /usr/local/apache/php/lib/php/build/

Installing header files:          /usr/local/apache/php/include/php/

Installing helper programs:       /usr/local/apache/php/bin/

  program: phpize

  program: php-config

Installing man pages:             /usr/local/apache/php/man/man1/

  page: phpize.1

  page: php-config.1

Installing PEAR environment:      /usr/local/apache/php/lib/php/

[PEAR] Archive_Tar    - already installed: 1.3.3

[PEAR] Console_Getopt - already installed: 1.2.3

[PEAR] Structures_Graph- already installed: 1.0.2

[PEAR] XML_Util       - already installed: 1.2.1

[PEAR] PEAR           - already installed: 1.9.0

Wrote PEAR system config file at: /usr/local/apache/php/etc/pear.conf

You may want to add: /usr/local/apache/php/lib/php to your php.ini include_path

/admin/scripts/home/tac/php-5.3.1/build/shtool install -c ext/phar/phar.phar /usr/local/apache/php/bin

ln -s -f /usr/local/apache/php/bin/phar.phar /usr/local/apache/php/bin/phar

Installing PDO headers:          /usr/local/apache/php/include/php/ext/pdo/

4. copy the .ini file to /etc/php.ini

Stop and start the httpd

You will have --enable socket support - enabled

            *write a small PHP program <?php phpinfo(); ?> in mysystem.php  /*shows system variables of php

             *browse http://hostname/mysystem.php

3. Cacti Installation

0. Create username cacti in OS/MySQL ; Create database cacti;

        #mysqladmin -u root -p create cacti

1. wget http://www.cacti.net/downloads/cacti-0.8.8b.tar.gz

2. tar -xvzf cacti-0.8.8b.tar.gz

         mysql -p cacti < /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ips/cacti/cacti.sql

                        mysql> GRANT ALL ON cacti.* TO cactiuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

                        Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

                        mysql> flush privileges;

                        Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

                        mysql> exit

3. vim include/config.php

        /* make sure these values refect your actual database/host/user/password */

        $database_type = "mysql";

        $database_default = "cacti";

        $database_hostname = "localhost";

        $database_username = "cacti";

        $database_password = "password";

        $database_port = "3306";

        $database_ssl = false;

        /*

        Edit this to point to the default URL of your Cacti install

        ex: if your cacti install as at http://serverip/cacti/ this

         would be set to /cacti/

        */

        $url_path = "/cacti/";

4. Installing Spine Poller

        wget http://www.cacti.net/downloads/spine/cacti-spine-0.8.7c.tar.gz

        ./configure

5.    Settings Poller in crontab

        vim /var/spool/cron/cacti

        #min hour dayofmonth monthofyear dayofweek0-sunday commands

        *       *       *       *       *   /usr/bin/php /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ips/cacti/poller.php

6. Use Spine Poller that higher degree of Efficieny that polls every one minute - use GUI.

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Installing the core Plugin Architecture

        mysql -u cacti  < cacti-plugin-arch/pa.sql

1.    curl http://docs.cacti.net/_media/plugin:thold-v0.5.0.tgz >threshold.tgz (Threshold Management)

        curl http://docs.cacti.net/_media/plugin:settings-v0.71-1.tgz >settings.tgz (Mailer API)

        tar -xvzf threshold.tgz

        tar -xvzf settings.tgz

2. Use GUI Plugin Settings to Install

3. Creating Crontab for spine Poller

        vim /var/spool/cron/cacti

        #min hour dayofmonth monthofyear dayofweek0-sunday commands

        *       *       *       *       *   /usr/bin/php /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ips/cacti/poller.php

4. Use Spine Poller for higher performance through GUI interface
5. chown -R cacti.apache rra log  / Changing ownership of these directories recursively for

drwxr-xr-x  2 cacti    users 4.0K 2012-04-03 20:49 log

drwxr-xr-x  2 cacti    users 4.0K 2014-06-05 16:48 rra