[HOWTO] Cacti & Nagios installation on Ubuntu to read WM

[Erhnam]

Cacti installation on Ubuntu by Piethein Strengholt

I just want to share this with the community. After you follow this install (on a Ubuntu system) you should be able to read the WMI statistics from Windows using Nagios. I noticed that there are a lot of questions on this forum on how to configure this. This has been tested on Ubuntu 6.10.

Downloads:

http://www.strengholt-online.nl/cacti/Perl_Scripts.zip
http://www.strengholt-online.nl/cacti/Import_Templates.zip
http://www.strengholt-online.nl/cacti/Nagios_Agent.zip

Cacti installation on Ubuntu:

Install MySQL server
- Go to: System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager
- Click on "Search" and type "mysql-server" in the pop-up window
- Click on the checkbox next to "mysql-server" and choose to "Mark for installation"
- Click "Mark" on the pop-up screen asking if you want to install the dependancies
- Click "Apply" and then click "Apply" again on the pop-up screen to confirm this action.

Install Cacti
- Go to: System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager
- Click on "Search" and type "cacti" in the pop-up window
- Click on the checkbox next to "cacti" and choose to "Mark for installation"
- Click "Mark" on the pop-up screen asking if you want to install the dependancies
- Click "Apply" and then click "Apply" again on the pop-up screen to confirm this action.
- Click "Forward" on the warning titled "Configuring libphp-adodb"
- Leave the question "Password of your database's administrative user:" blank and hit "Forward".
- Leave the question "MySQL application password for Cacti" blank and hit "Forward".

Note: The system will create a random password for you, so you don't need to enter one
- On the "Webserver type" question, select "Apache2" and then click "Forward"

Install Nagios:
- Go to: System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager
- Click on "Search" and type "nagios" in the pop-up window
- Click on the checkbox next to "nagios" and choose to "Mark for installation"
- Click "Mark" on the pop-up screen asking if you want to install the dependancies
- Click "Apply" and then click "Apply" again on the pop-up screen to confirm this action.
- Create a symbolic link ln

[crishaddad]

Um. Is this info complete? the last line seems to dwindle offf....

[padonker]

Please complete this howto