Time for action – installing the CactiWMI add-on – Part 2

1. Logon to your Linux Cacti server with root privileges.

2. Make sure you've got the subversion client installed:

   yum install subversion
   

3. Checkout the latest version of the source files containing the wmic command:

   svn checkout http://dev.zenoss.org/svn/trunk/wmi/Samba/source
   

4. Change into the source directory:

   cd source
   

5. Run the autogen script to generate the configure script:

   ./autogen.sh
   

6. Run configure:

   ./configure
   

7. After the command finishes you can run the make all command to compile all necessary binaries:

   make all
   

8. This will create the bin directory. Change into it:

   cd bin
   

9. Look for the wmic binary file and run it:

   # ls -l wmic
   -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6908608 Oct 17 18:28 wmic
   # ./wmic --version
   Version 4.0.0tp4-SVN-build-21646 
   

10. Copy the wmic binary to /usr/local/bin:

    cp wmic /usr/local/bin
    

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You compiled the wmic binary which is needed to poll the WMI service on Windows systems. You've made sure that it compiled properly...