Cacti-for-Windows-v0.8.7d.rar_Cacti_windows 8

The Cacti Manual Ian Berry Tony Roman Larry Adams J.P. Pasnak Jimmy Conner Reinhard Scheck Copyright � 2008 The Cacti Group This project is licensed under the terms of the GPL. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. All product names are property of their respective owners. Such names are used for identification purposes only and are not indicative of endorsement by or of any company, organization, product, or platform. __________________________________________________________ Table of Contents I. Installation 1. Requirements 2. Installing Under Unix Required Packages for RPM-based Operating Systems Ports for FreeBSD Configure PHP Configure the Webserver (Apache) Configure MySQL Install and Configure Cacti (Optional) Install and Configure Spine Apply Patches 3. Installing Under Windows 4. Upgrading Cacti II. Basics 5. Principles of Operation Data Retrieval Data Storage Data Presentation 6. Graph Overview 7. How to Graph Your Network Creating a Device Creating the Graphs 8. Viewing Graphs Graph Trees 9. User Management Editing an existing User Creating a New User Copying a user Enable/Disable Users Batch Copy Users Delete Users Guest (Anonymous) Access III. Advanced Topics 10. Graph a Single SNMP OID 11. Data Input Methods Creating a Data Input Method Making Your Scripts Work With Cacti 12. Data Queries Creating a Data Query SNMP Query XML Syntax Script Query XML Syntax 13. Templates Data Templates Graph Templates Host Templates Import Templates Export Templates 14. PHP Script Server Using the Script Server Upgrade Steps for the Example HostMib Data Queries Migration of Existing PHP Scripts to Script Server Testing Your Script in the Script Server 15. Spine IV. Help 16. How To Simplest Method of Going from Script to Graph (Walkthrough) 17. Frequently Asked Questions V. Reference 18. Variables Graph Variables Host Variables 19. RRDTool Specific Features GPRINT Presets CDEFs 20. Command Line Scripts Rebuild Poller Cache Re-Index Hosts Empty Poller Output Table Reapply Suggested Names to Graphs Copy Local Cacti Users Add a New Device Associate a Data Query to an existing Host Associate a Graph Template to an existing Host Add a New Graph Add Items to a Tree Add Graph Permissions 21. Debugging Check Cacti Log File Check Basic Data Gathering Check cacti's poller Check MySQL updating Check rrd file updating Check rrd file ownership Check rrd file numbers Check rrdtool graph statement Miscellaneous RPM Installation? Not NaN, but 0 (zero) values? __________________________________________________________ Chapter 1. Requirements Cacti requires that the following software is installed on your system. * RRDTool 1.0.49 or 1.2.x or greater * MySQL 4.1.x or 5.x or greater * PHP 4.3.6 or greater, 5.x greater highly recommended for advanced features * A Web Server e.g. Apache or IIS __________________________________________________________ Chapter 2. Installing Under Unix Please make sure, the following packages are installed according to your operating systems requirements. Verify, that httpd and mysqld are started at system startup. __________________________________________________________ Required Packages for RPM-based Operating Systems * httpd * php * php-mysql * php-snmp * mysql * mysql-server * net-snmp __________________________________________________________ Ports for FreeBSD * www/apache2 * net/rrdtool * net/net-snmp * www/php4-cgi * lang/php4 (With MySQL and SNMP Support) * databases/mysql323-server __________________________________________________________ Configure PHP Please ensure, that PHP support is either builtin or installed for the following PHP extension modules: * mysql (For configuration, see note below) * SNMP (For configuration, see note below) * XML * Session * Sockets * LDAP (Required only when using LDAP authentication) * GD (Required only for some Plugins) You may run the following command to get the list of all available PHP modules php -m Please verify, that the modules are installed and configured correctly. There are several ways to do so, please consult PHP configuration instructions for a complete description. We will continue using the most recommended way of configuring php extension modules. Please find the file /etc/php.ini and make the following changes to it: extension_dir = /etc/php.d This will enable PHP to find more configuration directives in that very directory. Other distros point to /usr/lib/php/modules instead. In each case, you should locate e.g. mysql.so in that directory. Activate the MySQL extension via /etc/php.d/mysql.ini ; Enable mysql extension module extension=mysql.so Activate the SNMP extension via /etc/php.d/snmp.ini ; Enable snmp extension module extension=snmp.so If using PHP 4.3.5 or less include the following line. If using 4.3.6 or greater, you should remove this line if present. session.save_path=/tmp If you want to allow template importing, uncomment the following line: file_uploads = On __________________________________________________________ Configure the Webserver (Apache) If you are using Apache 1.3.x, installation of PHP 5 is not recommended. Please find the file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf or equivalent and make the following changes to it: # Load config files from the config directory "/etc/httpd/conf.d". Include conf.d/*.conf Now, please locate the PHP configuration file at /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf If using PHP 5, then add the following lines. # PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language which attempts to make it # easy for developers to write dynamically generated webpages. LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so # # Cause the PHP interpreter to handle files with a .php extension. AddHandler php5-script .php AddType text/html .php # # Add index.php to the list of files that will be served as directory # indexes. DirectoryIndex index.php __________________________