Installing Thold
Lets start by installing the Thold plugin.
Downloading and installing Thold
Thold is not published on the cacti.net
page, but is freely available from the common GitHub-based plugin page: https://github.com/Cacti/plugin_thold.
Time for action - installing Thold
The following steps will install the latest Thold version for Cacti 1.x
- Log on to you Cacti installation as root.
- Go to the new plugins directory:
cd /var/www/html/cacti/plugins
- Download the Thold plugin using the following command:
wget -O thold.zip https://github.com/Cacti/plugin_thold/archive/develop.zip
- Extract the archive:
unzip thold.zip
- Rename the directory to the correct name of thold:
mv plugin_thold-develop thold
- Log on to your Cacti web interface using a user with
Plugin Management
permissions. - Go to
Configuration
->Plugin Management
. - You should now be able to see the Thold plugin on the list of available plugins:
What just happened?
You installed the Thold plugin, thereby enabling you to set thresholds on values of...