Cacti
Monitoring system on FreeBSD 6.2
Lars Sommer, lasg@lasg.dk, 2007-09-06
Updated to FreeBSD 7.2, 2009-08-26
DISCLAIMER: This is a personal note made for personal usage. It might not be easy usable nor explaining.
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Please note: Cacti do not have memory/free scripts for FreeBSD. You can either
hack in the linux scripts, or look at the Cacti website, at the add-on scripts.
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Install these ports:
net-mgmt/cacti
NO NOT THIS: net/cactid
Messages from the ports:
1. Create the MySQL database:
mysqladmin –user=root create cacti -p
2. Create a mysql user/password for cacti:
echo “GRANT ALL ON cacti.* TO cactiuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ‘cactiuser’; \
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;” | mysql -u root -p
3. Import the default cacti database:
mysql -u root -p cacti < /usr/local/share/cacti/cacti.sql
4. Edit /usr/local/share/cacti/include/db-settings.php.
5. Add a line to your /etc/crontab file similar to:
*/5 * * * * cacti /usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/share/cacti/poller.php > \
/dev/null 2>&1
6. Add alias in apache config for the cacti dir:
Alias /cacti “/usr/local/share/cacti/”
7. Be sure apache gives an access to the directory (‘Allow from’ keywords).
Allow from localhost 127.0.0.1
8. Open a cacti login page in your web browser and login with
admin/admin or admin/cacti
If you update cacti, open a login page, an updating process
will start automatically.
