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How to install the Cacti software on a Raspberry Pi to monitor other servers.

Created on 22-JAN-2015

16 Steps total

Step 1: Install Raspbian on your SD Card

http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/93661-initial-setup-of-a-raspberrypi

Step 2: Login to your Raspberry Pi

Step 3: Update your repositories

sudo apt-get update

Step 4: Upgrade all out of date software

sudo apt-get upgrade

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Step 5: Install neccesary software dependencies for Cacti

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-client mysql-server php5-mysql php5-snmp php5-gd php5-ldap rrdtool snmp snmpd -y

* When mysql-server is being installed it will prompt you to enter a password for the SQL admin. Make sure to write this down (or remember it).

Step 6: Edit the php.ini file

sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

- scroll down until you find the line that starts with ';extension_dir'
- remove the ';' from before 'extension_dir'
- add '/usr/lib/php5/20100525+lfs/' after the equal sign on the line with 'extension_dir = '

- press CTRL - X to exit
- press 'y' to save changes
- press 'Enter' to keep the filename the same

Step 7: Edit the apache2.conf file

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

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- scroll to the end of the file and find the line that reads 'Include conf.d/'
- Change that line to read 'Include conf.d/*.conf'

- press CTRL - X to exit
- press 'y' to save changes
- press 'Enter' to keep the filename the same

Step 8: Create php.conf file

sudo nano /etc/apache2/conf.d/php.conf

- paste the following into the file:

LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
AddHandler php5-script .php
AddType text/html .php
DirectoryIndex index.php

- press CTRL - X to exit
- press 'y' to save changes
- press 'Enter' to keep the filename the same

Step 9: Download Cacti

sudo apt-get install cacti -y

* ignore warnings you get about php

Step 10: Choose your web server

choose 'apache2'

Step 11: Configure the Cacti database

Choose 'Yes'

Step 12: Choose to autoconfigure Cacti

Select 'Yes'

Step 13: Enter the password for the MySQL root user

You created this is STEP-5
* Make sure that you dont mistype this. If you do then your installation of Cacti wont work.

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Step 14: Enter a password for the database's administrative user

Make sure to write this down (or remember it).

Step 15: Login to the Cacti Website

- Open a browser and in the address bar enter: http://HOSTNAME/cacti
* My Cacti Server's hostname is 'cacti' so i entered: http://cacti/cacti
* You can also enter the Cacti Server's IP Address in place of the hostname.

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Step 16: ! Spice up this article so that other admins can find it !

1 Comment

How To Update Activex/plugin

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  spicehead-yvicz Jul 24, 2020 at 08:17pm

  An updated version of this manual would be great. many packages are not available anymore. And the last step was not successfull for me:
  Not Found
  The requested URL was not found on this server.

  Apache/2.4.38 (Raspbian) Server at 192.168.2.1 Port 80