Time for action – installing the mobile plugin

1. Logon to your Cacti installation.

2. Change to the plugins directory:

   cd /var/www/html/cacti/plugins
   

3. Download the mobile plugin from http://docs.cacti.net/plugin:mobile:

   wget -O mobile-latest.tgz 'http://docs.cacti.net/_media/plugin:mobile-latest.tgz?id=plugin%3Amobile&cache=cache'
   

4. Extract the mobile plugin:

   tar -xzvf  mobile-latest.tgz
   

5. Rename the mobile-0.1 directory:

   mv mobile-0.1/ mobile
   

6. Enable the plugin from the Plugin Management page:

   

What just happened?

You just installed the mobile plugin. If you now browse to your Cacti web interface using an older mobile device, you'll be presented with a list of down hosts and breached thresholds. The mobile plugin doesn't provide any further functionality such as viewing graphs.