Install Cacti on CentOS 5 with yum

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Installation

• Download CentOS 5 from www.centos.org
  
• Install CentOS5
  
• Install Core Development Tools Automake, Gcc (C/C++), Perl, Python &
  Debuggers
  
  
  
  • yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
    
  
  
• install Priorities:
  
  
  
  • yum install yum-priorities
    
  
  
• install RPMforge:
  
  
  
  • cd /usr/local/src
    
  • wget
    http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
    
  • rmp -i rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
    
  
  
• install mysql
  
  
  
  • yum -y install mysql-server
    
  
  
• install Cacti
  
  
  
  • yum -y install cacti
    
  
  
• start services
  
  
  
  • service mysqld start
    
  • service snmpd start
    
  • service httpd start
    
  
  
• Install cacti database
  
  
  
  • mysqladmin -u root -p create cacti
    
  • mysql -u root -p -A cacti < /var/www/cacti/cacti.sql
    
  • mysql -u root -p -A mysql
    
  • mysql> grant all privileges on cacti.* to cactiuser@localhost identified
    by 'cactiuser';
    
  • mysql> flush privileges;
    
  • mysql> exit
    
  
  
• Modify cacti.conf
  
  
  
  • vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/cacti.conf
    
  • Change the order and allow as below.
    
    
    
    • order allow,deny
      
    • allow from all
      
    
    
  
  
• Open http://server/cacti
  
• Install cacti as winzard and enjoy it.
  

FAQ

• If the yum can not run, becaue the yum update run at start, you can kill the
  process
  

rm -f /var/run/yum.pid