Configuring the plugin architecture

Once you have installed Cacti 1.x, you can assign the specific realm permissions to users who you want to allow.

Time for action - configuring the plugin architecture

Let's enable the access to the Plugin Management page for a user:

1. Log on to your Cacti web interface as an admin user.
2. Go to Configuration | Users.
3. Select the user who you want to allow to administer plugins.
4. Click on the Permissions tab.

5. Now select the Plugin Management box within the System Administration section:

6. Click on the Save button.
7. The user should now notice a new menu called Plugin Management within the Configuration section:

8. Click on the Plugin Management menu entry.

9. You will see a list of installed plugins. At the moment, this list should be empty, as shown in the following screenshot:

What just happened?

You just added permissions to install, enable, disable, and uninstall plugins to a user. By default, only the admin user will have this permission, so for any other user, you will have to...