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The Cacti Manual

Ian Berry Tony Roman Larry Adams J.P. Pasnak Jimmy Conner Reinhard Scheck Andreas Braun

The Cacti Manual by Ian Berry, Tony Roman, Larry Adams, J.P. Pasnak, Jimmy Conner, Reinhard Scheck, and Andreas Braun Published 2012 Copyright © 2012 The Cacti Group
This project is licensed under the terms of the GPL. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/ormodify 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 moredetails. 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 1. Requirements ..................................................................................................................................................................... 1 2. Installing Under Unix ....................................................................................................................................................... 22.1. Required Packages for RPM-based Operating Systems.................................................................................. 2 2.2. Ports for FreeBSD.................................................................................................................................................. 2 2.3. Configure PHP...................................................................................................................................................... 2 2.4. Configure the Webserver (Apache) .................................................................................................................... 3 2.5. ConfigureMySQL................................................................................................................................................. 3 2.6. Install and Configure Cacti.................................................................................................................................. 3 2.7. (Optional) Install and Configure Spine............................................................................................................. 4 2.8. ApplyPatches........................................................................................................................................................ 4 3. Installing Under Windows............................................................................................................................................... 6 4. Upgrading Cacti.............................................................................................................................................................. 11 II. Basics ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 12 5. Principles ofOperation................................................................................................................................................... 12 5.1. Data Retrieval ...................................................................................................................................................... 12 5.2. Data Storage......................................................................................................................................................... 12 5.3. Data...