Cacti installation in debian

The Cacti Dashboard will look like below after your successful login. I hope you have learned how to install Cacti on Debian Now, the Cacti is ready to monitor remote Linux machines. By Raj On Sep 15, First, you must change the password of the admin user before you begin the setup. Ensure your password meets the minimum requirement. Accept the Cacti license agreement and then click Begin to continue.

On the next page, Cacti will perform pre-installation checks. Since we have already configured the system for Cacti, the pre-check should be clean. If Cacti reports any issues, fix them and click the Refresh icon to get the latest pre-check report. Finally, click Next. It allows users to poll services at an interval of time and resulting in a graph format.

With Cacti , you can get a graph for CPU and network bandwidth utilization. Also, it monitors the network traffic by polling a router or switch via SNMP.

Cacti recommend changing MySQL a few settings for better performances. So, edit the configuration file. As a mandatory requirement, we need to set the timezone in the PHP configuration file.

So, edit the php. The newly created database user cactiuser should have access to the mysql. Download the latest version of the Cacti package using wget command. Edit the Cacti config file to specify the database type, database name, MySQL hostname, user, and password information.

Many thanks for this article, very helpful. Please help me step 21 Preinstalltion checks on my installation comes back with a blank page and nothing happens, no error message that I could see.

What could I have done wrong? Did I miss some stage or step? Would be grateful for your help. Have a question or suggestion?

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This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Afterwards, make sure to update the system by issuing the below command. If you liked this article, then do subscribe to email alerts for Linux tutorials. If you have any questions or doubts? Related Posts. Modahda, We will update the article with the latest instructions, till then stay tuned for updates… Reply. Matel, Awesome instructions. Thank you. Can you by any chance take an educated guess at what I may have missed?

Hi, thanks for your helpful article. When installing cacti, I go the following errors. Please advise what to do? How to remove all, please give the command? How to fix Reply. Cacti version cacti