Cacti

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Cacti for SME 7.x

Maintainer

Michel Van hees

Description

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with hundreds of devices.

Installation

yum install smeserver-cacti --enablerepo=smecontribs

then

signal-event post-upgrade ; signal event reboot

alternatively you can issue to avoid reboot :

/etc/e-smith/events/actions/initialize-default-databases
expand-template /etc/e-smith/sql/init/80cacti
service mysql.init restart
signal-event /etc/cacti/db.php

Uninstall

yum remove smeserver-cacti-0.8.7a-1

Usage

You can access cacti interface by opening your web browser at the address:

https://[IP or NAME]/cacti

A login and a password is needed to connect. By default, installation process create a user "admin" with "admin" as password.

Of course, the first thing you have to do, is to change it

Settings

By default, installation process limit access at cacti to local network.

To enable cacti to be access from internet and local network :

db configuration setprop cacti access public
signal-event console-save

To limit access to local network :

db configuration setprop cacti access private
signal-event console-save

Additional information