Step by Step Installing Cacti on Ubuntu 14.04

What is Cacti :-

Cacti is an open source web based network monitoring tool front-end for the data logging tool called RRDtool. It allows users to check the services at an interval of time and resulting in the graph format.

Prerequisites :-

Before starting Cacti installation we required following software to be installed over Ubuntu.

1- WebServer :- In my scenario, I am using apache2

2- PHP: - We required PHP

3- PHP-MySQL: required PHP-MySQL extension to connect PHP code with MySQL database.

4- PHP-SNMP : PHP extension to help PHP code to manage remote devices via the SNMP ( Simple Network Management Protocol ).

5- MySQL : This is MySQL client. To use the MySQL client to manage the MySQL server database

6- MySQL-server : This is RDBMS based MySQL Server .

7- Net-SNMP : Net-SNMP is a suite of software for using and deploying the SNMP protocol (v1, v2c and v3 and the AgentX subagent protocol).

Start Installation :

Step 1- Apache2 installation

root@amar-virtual:~# apt install apache2

Step 2- PHP installation with SNMP and PHP-SNMP

root@amar-virtual:~# apt install php5 php5-mysql php5-snmp snmp php5-gd

Step 3- MySQL installation

root@amar-virtual:~# apt install  mysql-server

Note:- During MySQL installation, it will ask for root password, set as per your requirement.

Step 4- RRD-Tool installation.

root@amar-virtual:~# apt install rrdtool

Step 5- SNMP & SNMPD installation.

root@amar-virtual:~# apt install snmp snmpd

Step 6- Cacti Installation

root@amar-virtual:~# apt install cacti cacti-spine

During installation,a pop-up message will appear just select Ok

Now It will ask for web server select apache 2 and click on OK

Now, It will ask for Creating one cacti Database select YES

Now It will ask for database root user password enter and hit OK

Now it will ask a password for cacti user enter any and hit ok.

Reconfirm password and hit OK

Before we start the web configuration part, we need to start the snmpd service.

root@amar-virtual:~# /etc/init.d/snmpd start
* Starting network management services:   
root@amar-virtual:~#

Now you can access http://ip-of-you-server/cacti after installation, the first login, the default account and password are “admin”. http://10.0.0.74/cacti/install/

Step 7- Complete Cacti installation using web browser :

Open Cacti URL -http://10.0.0.74/cacti/install/

Click Next :