[HOWTO] Installing Cacti on Ubuntu

tspec · Joined: 15 Nov 2005 Posts: 8

For anyone interested, I wrote up a quick guide on how to install Cacti on Ubuntu and added it to the Ubuntu Wiki pages yesteday.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CactiHowTo

I tried installing it roughly 4 or 5 times on two different boxes using these instructions and had no issues so i'd be interested to know if others have any success with it or not... that is if you ever have any desire to getting it running on Ubuntu.

xphu · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Helsinki, Finland

sconlan · Joined: 05 Dec 2005 Posts: 2 Location: Colorado

ditto "Need to uncomment some rows to get it. And a basic installation does not install a root user at all"

Being new to ubuntu and a novice at linux, it took a while to figure out..

Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file before doing any "apt-get install ..."
also "sudo passwd root" from your user account to activiate the root account; then log in as root

Do an "apt-get update" then begin the install instructions.

I installed ubuntu and cacti multiple times for practice. Occasionally, the php5-mysql package would not configure correctly. This prevented my graphs from showing up. Everything else in cacti was working fine, just no graphs. I did a "php -m" and saw that mysql module was not listed.
I finally did a "dpkg-reconfigure php5-mysql" to correct the problem. This was an intermittent problem during my installs/ format/ re-installs. Not sure why it worked sometimes and not others.

Everything is pretty now. Thanks for the instructions.

Oh yeah, don't forget to "apache2ctl restart" after you do the dpkg-reconfigure.

eanders · Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 1

Thanks for the great tutorial. Installing seems to be a breeze, it's configuring that I'm having trouble with.
Specifically I'm getting an snmp error message, it seems that no matter what I do I can't seem to fix that, or find any additional information that might tell me where to look.

Does anyone here have cacti monitoring the local network ports?
Or monitoring other ubuntu boxes over the network?

jpgeerets · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 18

waaw,
this is a good advice!
stuff works now.
im very very happy!!!

tristanbob · Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1

I have updated this page on the Ubuntu Wiki to support Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake). Take a look!

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CactiHowTo

Tristan Rhodes

EndPerform · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 1

Thanks for the howto. Just a side-note that if you already have mysql set up and a root password set, you'll need to enter that when prompted. But otherwise, I had cacti up and running within 5 minutes. Thanks again!

hiltonadmin · Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Upstate NY

Anyone have any luck installing the Cacti Plugin arch. I can't get the Plugin stuff to work. When I follow the instructions to install the Plugin-Arch I completly break cacti. I get errors:

LordMerlin · Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:11 am Post subject:

This is one reason I don't always like apt-get. I'm already running Apache2, PHP5, MySQL 4.0.12 with some databases and security already setup.

So, when I installed cacti from apt-get, it couldn't create the database, which I then added manually afterwards.

Then I edited /etc/cacti/debian.php to insert my database details.

Problem now is, I get this error:

cexar · Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Posts: 1

i type apt-get insatll cati
on ubuntu server 6.06
the cacti pass and mysql pass for cati was leaved blank
i try to get with http://mylocalip/cacti
but it doesnt work
then i try to remove
apt-get remove cacti
i was asking for a pass, i leve blnak
but i got the following:

uninstalling cacti ...
dbconfig-common: dumping mysql database cacti to /var/tmp/cacti.cacti.2006-08-14-15.23.mysql.wfcvfK
dpkg: error processing cacti (--remove):
the subprocess pre-removal script send output code error 1
dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/cacti.conf
Replacing config file /etc/cacti/debian.php with new version
dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password
there were errors processing:
cacti
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

MatsB · Cacti User Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 50

Does anybody know if I need to go through steps 7-13 under Installing Cacti for Ubuntu - Part 1?
I'm asking because I don't have the cacti.sql file located anywhere and it seems that from step 12 it's extracted.

I'm installing on Ubuntu Server 6.06

I've completed all steps under:
-Installing Cacti on Ubuntu Server 6.06 (Dapper Drake)
-Setup Cacti
-Recommended: Create a root password for MySQL

Seesa · Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Posts: 1

7echno7im · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 21

I am goign to post ubuntu install instructions soon for server without using xampp, step-by-step, latest version from source.

gandalf · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 5:51 am Post subject:

7echno7im · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 21

Done... sorry for the wait. Here is a crude mark up. As soon as I have time to make them nicer looking I will.

http://technotim.dyndns.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80&Itemid=13

if you dig it, then digg it.