Time for action – installing Thold

1. Go to http://cactiusers.org/, right-click on the Thold link, and save the target location.

2. Logon to the shell of your Cacti server.

3. Change to the Cacti plugins directory:

   cd /var/www/html/cacti/plugins
   

4. Download the Thold plugin:

   wget http://cactiusers.org/downloads/thold.tar.gz
   

5. Extract the file:

   tar -xzvf thold-0.4.3.tar.gz
   

6. Login to Cacti, install, and enable the plugin which appears in the Plugins page.

   

What just happened?

You installed the Thold plugin, thereby enabling you to set thresholds on the values of the RRD data and send out alerts if your thresholds are breached.