Install Cacti on CentOS 5 with yum

Installation

1. Download CentOS 5 from www.centos.org
2. Install CentOS5
3. Install Core Development Tools Automake, Gcc (C/C++), Perl, Python & Debuggers
   • yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
4. install Priorities:
   • yum install yum-priorities
5. install RPMforge:
   • cd /usr/local/src
   • wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
   • rmp -i rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
6. install mysql
   • yum -y install mysql-server
7. install Cacti
   • yum -y install cacti
8. start services
   • service mysqld start
   • service snmpd start
   • service httpd start
9. Install cacti database
   • mysqladmin -u root -p create cacti
   • mysql -u root -p -A cacti < /var/www/cacti/cacti.sql
   • mysql -u root -p -A mysql
   • mysql> grant all privileges on cacti.* to cactiuser@localhost identified by 'cactiuser';
   • mysql> flush privileges;
   • mysql> exit
10. Modify cacti.conf
    • vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/cacti.conf
    • Change the order and allow as below.
      • order allow,deny
      • allow from all
11. Open http://server/cacti
12. Install cacti as winzard and enjoy it.

FAQ

• If the yum can not run, becaue the yum update run at start, you can kill the process

rm -f /var/run/yum.pid