Cacti

Through this hands-on you will install cacti monitoring system and create device entry for your workshop router and switch. You will also create graphs and arrange a graph hierarchy. Finally you will install some cacti plug-ins.

Installation

You can easily install cacti by following

# apt-get install cacti

• While the installation process you will be ask for a password for mysql server. Please give the <class password>.

• Select Apache2 as the webserver type

• Select Yes to Configure database for cacti with dbconfig-common?

• Again give the <class password> for the database administrative user.

• You have complete the cacti installation. open a web browser in your host PC and give the following url.

​http://<Your VM's IP Address>/cacti

• Click next

• Select New Install and click next

• Click Finish and you will be directed to the cacti login page

• Use default username and password to login

User name : admin Password : admin