Need help installing

mbalcerak · Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

i am currently using cacti 0.8.7b and I'm trying to install weathermap and cannot figure it out, cacti is installed in /usr/local/cacti under fedora 9 and weathermap is extracted to /usr/local/cacti/plugins/weathermap

however i cannot figure out how to make the tab show up next to the graphs tab inc cacti, please help!!

Howie · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:52 am Post subject:

Did you read the installation instructions?

especially the part about the monkey.

mbalcerak · Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

uh ... no

Howie · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:43 am Post subject:

Then read the installation instructions. That's why I wrote them.

There isn't really a monkey part.

mbalcerak · Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

where are they located i can't seem to find them...

Howie · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:47 pm Post subject:

mbalcerak · Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

i finally got php-gd installed and everything in in the check.php looks good, but i keep getting this error:

Howie · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:44 pm Post subject:

OK - this bit might not be in the manual.

You need to install PEAR, which is PHP's standard library. On most OS, it's part of PHP. I guess on fedora it isn't. The RPM will be called something like php-pear or just pear. (looks like it's php-pear).

I'll make sure that's in the next version. For what it's worth, you only actually need it for the command-line version, not for the cacti plugin.

mbalcerak · Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

when i try i add the

Howie · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:55 am Post subject:

if you added the "$plugins = array()" part too, that sounds like you haven't installed the plugin architecture.

mbalcerak · Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

also a bigger problem at the moment, the date on the system was incorrect, now that its current it doesn't want to run the poller anymore, any idea how to fix it?