Time for action – installing the settings plugin

1. Go to the plugins web page at http://docs.cacti.net/plugins.

2. Click on the Settings plugin.

3. Right-click on the download link and copy the link target to the clipboard.

4. Logon to your Cacti installation as root using PuTTY.

5. Go to the new plugins directory:

   cd /var/www/html/cacti/plugins
   

6. Download the settings plugin using the following command:

   wget -O settings-v0.7-1.tgz http://docs.cacti.net/_media/plugin:settings-v0.7-1.tgz?id=plugin%3Asettings&cache=cache
   

7. Extract the archive:

   tar -xzvf settings-v0.7-1.tgz
   

8. Logon to your Cacti web interface using a user with Plugin Management permissions.

9. Go to Configuration | Plugin Management.

10. You should now be able to see the settings plugin in the list of available plugins:

    

11. Click on the blue arrow icon in the Actions column to install the plugin. The list of icons on the Actions column should change as seen in the following screenshot:

    

12. Click on the green arrow icon on the Actions column to enable the plugin...