RRDtool

RRDtool RedHat/Fedora RPM packages from DAG repository.

Tested with 1.2.8 version:

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/rrdtool/perl-rrdtool-1.2.8-1.1.el3.test.i386.rpm http://dag.wieers.com/packages/rrdtool/rrdtool-1.2.8-1.1.el3.test.i386.rpm

# rpm -ihv perl-rrdtool-1.2.8-1.1.el3.test.i386.rpm rrdtool-1.2.8-1.1.el3.test.i386.rpm

cacti

TODO: use cacti from DAG repository!

http://www.cacti.net/downloads/packages/Redhat/9/cacti-0.8.6d.rh9.i386.rpm

cacti needs MySQL, PHP and WWW server installed (SLC3 versions seem to be sufficient).

• install cacti RH9 package
  • [root@xxx root] rpm -ihv cacti-0.8.6d.rh9.i386.rpm --nodeps
    • --nodeps is needed because of lack of php-snmp package
  • [root@xxx root]# echo "RPM { Fake-Provides { "php-snmp" } }" >> /etc/apt/apt.conf
    • to silence apt

• create MySQL database for cacti
  • [root@xxx root]# mysql
  • mysql> CREATE DATABASE cacti;
  • mysql> exit

• import the default cacti database
  • [root@xxx root]# mysql cacti < /var/www/html/cacti/cacti.sql

• create MySQL user for cacti
  • [root@xxx root]# mysql --user=root mysql
  • mysql> GRANT ALL ON cacti.* TO cactiuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'somepassword';
  • mysql> flush privileges;
  • mysql> exit

• edit /var/www/html/cacti/include/config.php and change

       $database_default = "cacti";
       $database_hostname = "localhost";
       $database_username = "cactiuser";
       $database_password = "somepassword";

• set the proper permissions for the cacti user
  • [root@xxx root]# cd /var/www/html/cacti
  • [root@xxx root]# chown -R cactiuser rra/ log/

• TODO: crontab

• remember to start WWW server and MySQL
  • [root@xxx root]# /etc/init.d/httpd start
  • [root@xxx root]# /etc/init.d/mysqld start

• you can now use http://localhost/cacti/

TODO:

• use data from all sources to produce combined graph

-- BartlomiejZolnierkiewicz - 10 Jun 2005