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Cacti 0.8 Beginner's Guide

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Published in Mar 2011
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ISBN-13 9781849513920
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Thomas Urban is the owner of Urban-Software.de, a software and consulting services company providing add-ons, plugins, and services for the Cacti Performance Monitoring systems. He has been in the consulting business for more than 5 years and has been creating web applications for over 20 years building reporting interfaces, network management software, asset management sites, and much more. He is a part of the Cacti community and is known as Phalek in the Cacti forums, where he is among the Top 10 contributors. He started writing the first Cacti Beginners Guide for Cacti 0.8 back in 2011. The second edition is his second official effort.
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Cacti 0.8Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Installing Cacti FREE CHAPTER 2. Using Graphs to Monitor Networks and Devices 3. Creating and Using Templates 4. User Management 5. Data Management 6. Cacti Maintenance 7. Network and Server Monitoring 8. Plugin Architecture 9. Plugins 10. Threshold Monitoring with Thold 11. Enterprise Reporting 12. Cacti Automation for NOC Mobile Access / Administration Online Resources Further Information Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Installing Cacti on a CentOS 5 system

You're now going to install Cacti from source on a CentOS 5 system. You should use at least Centos 5.5 as it is 100% binary compatible with RedHat Enterprise Linux 5, but in fact you can follow most of the installation processes on other Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu or SuSe Linux, as well. By installing from source you'll get some insight into the inner workings of Cacti, and it will also provide you with a system which most Cacti and plugin developers are used to. There are differences between a source installation and a Yum/APT installation, but they will be described later on. Let's get started.

Preparing the system

Assume that the CentOS system has been installed with only the "Server Package" selected and there is no graphical user interface installed.

This is the default installation for a CentOS system with no manual package selection.

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