Time for action – installing the Plugin Architecture

1. Go to http://www.cacti.net/downloads/pia/.

   

2. Right-click on the latest PIA version compatible with your installation.

3. Copy the link-target to the clipboard.

4. Logon to your Cacti installation as root.

5. Change to the Cacti base directory:

   cd /var/www/html/cacti/
   

6. Download the PIA:

   wget http://www.cacti.net/downloads/pia/cacti-plugin-0.8.7g-PA-v2.9.tar.gz
   

7. Unpack the archive:

   tar -xzvf cacti-plugin-0.8.7g-PA-v2.9.tar.gz
   

8. A new directory will be created named cacti-plugin-arch.

9. Run the patching process using the following command. Alternatively, you can also use the pre-patched files contained in the PIA archive:

   patch -p1 -N < cacti-plugin-arch/cacti-plugin-0.8.7g-PA-v2.9.diff
   

10. Check for any error message as shown in the following screenshot:

    

11. In case of errors, you can copy the already patched files from the cacti-plugin-arch/files-0.8.7g/ directory:

    cp cacti-plugin-arch/files-0.8.7g/poller.php .
    cp cacti-plugin-arch/files-0.8.7g/data_sources.php...