Time for action – installing CereusReporting

1. Logon to your Cacti installation as root.

2. Change to the plugins directory of your Cacti installation:

   cd /var/www/html/cacti/plugins
   

3. Download the latest version:

   wget http://www.network-outsourcing.de/uploads/CereusReporting_v1.50.86_ionCube_full.tgz
   

4. Extract the plugin using the tar command:

   tar -xzvf CereusReporting_v1.50.86_ionCube_full.tgz
   

5. Change into the newly created directory, nmidCreatePDF:

   cd nmidCreatePDF
   

6. Change the ownership of the files to your webserver and Cacti:

   chown -R apache.cactiuser *
   

7. CereusReporting uses a threaded approach for creating the graphs. Therefore you are now going to download the extension responsible for it:

   wget http://redmine.nmid-plugins.de/attachments/download/231/parallelGraphRetriever_linux32bit.zip
   unzip parallelGraphRetriever_linux32bit.zip
   chown apache.cactiuser parallelGraphRetriever
   chmod +x parallelGraphRetriever
   

8. In case you do not yet have the php-gd and php-mbstring modules installed, do it now:

   yum...