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Install Cacti - CentOS 6

OS: CentOS 6.5 - 64bits
IP: 124.124.124.160/24

Install Apache
yum install httpd httpd-devel
Install MySQL
yum install mysql mysql-server
Start service mysqld
/etc/init.d/mysqld start
Enable mysqld service permanently
chkconfig mysqld on
Reset password for mysql to new password is "rhce2015"
mysqladmin -u root -p password rhce2015
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 net-snmp-libs php-pear-Net-SMTP
Install RRDtool
yum install rrdtool
Start service: Apache, MySQL and SNMP
/etc/init.d/httpd start
/etc/init.d/mysqld start
/etc/init.d/snmpd start
Enable service: Apache, MySQL and SNMP to startup
chkconfig httpd on
chkconfig mysqld on
chkconfig snmpd on
Add Repository
wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Installing Cacti Tool
yum install cacti
Configure MySQL
Login to mysql as user "root" and create user and database for cacti
mysql -u root -p
mysql> create database cacti;
mysql> GRANT ALL ON cacti.* TO cacti@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'centos65';
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql> exit
Find cacti.sql file
rpm -ql cacti | grep cacti.sql
/usr/share/doc/cacti-0.8.8b/cacti.sql
Restore default cacti database to our created database
mysql -u cacti -p cacti < /usr/share/doc/cacti-0.8.8b/cacti.sql
Edit cacti database
vi /etc/cacti/db.php
/* make sure these values refect your actual database/host/user/password */
$database_type = "mysql";
$database_default = "cacti"; ## Name of the Cacti Database ##
$database_hostname = "localhost";
$database_username = "cacti"; ## Username for Cacti database ##
$database_password = "centos65"; ## Database password ##
$database_port = "3306";
$database_ssl = false;
/*

Configure Apache server
vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/cacti.conf
With content
Alias /cacti /usr/share/cacti
<Directory /usr/share/cacti/>
<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
# httpd 2.4
Require host localhost
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
# httpd 2.2
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 124.124.124.0/24
</IfModule>
</Directory>
Restart Apache
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
Allow port 80 in iptables
vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables
Add this line
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
Restart iptables
/etc/init.d/iptables restart
Configure Cron for Cacti
vi /etc/cron.d/cacti
with this content
*/5 * * * * cacti /usr/bin/php /usr/share/cacti/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1

Run Cacti installer
http://124.124.124.160/cacti