Time for action – starting the Windows setup
Download the Windows Installer to the system on which you want to install Cacti. To retrieve the latest version, go to http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=14946 and click on the download link at the end of the first post. Save the installer to your desktop.
Double-click on the setup file. The installer will check what has already been installed and give you a report. Click Next > after you have read the information.
The next screen shows the GPL license. Accept it and click on Next >.
Next comes the selection of the web server to be used. If you have IIS installed, you can select it here, otherwise Apache will be installed.
In the next step you can choose the components to install. For now, you will only install the Cacti Core Files, so click on Next > without adding any additional components.
Keep the defaults for the installation locations and click on Next >.
The final step provides an overview of the paths to be created. Click on Install to start the installation process.
Please note the default Cacti admin and MySQL root passwords.
Open the Post-Install Instructions and follow the tasks.
What just happened?
You installed Cacti on Windows along with all the prerequisites.
Installing the Spine poller under Windows
Unlike
Linux, where compilation from source is the preferred method, Cacti has pre-compiled binaries for Windows. You can download the latest versions from http://www.cacti.net. Click on Download under the Spine (Cactid) section and download the latest Windows binary from there. Extract the archive to the computer running Cacti and edit spine.conf to fit your database settings. In case you want to compile spine yourself, you will have to install a working copy of Cygwin. The following URL will provide you with some information on how to compile Spine using Cygwin:
