Cacti Monitoring system on FreeBSD 6.2

Lars Sommer, [email protected], 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.