Cacti – Installing Cacti 1.x in Ubuntu/Debian LAMP stack

# Installing Cacti 1.x in Ubuntu/Debian LAMP stack

## Installing the required packages needed for the LAMP stack

    apt-get update
    apt-get install -y apache2 rrdtool mariadb-server snmp snmpd php7.0 php-mysql php7.0-snmp php7.0-xml php7.0-mbstring php7.0-json php7.0-gd php7.0-gmp php7.0-zip php7.0-ldap php7.0-mc

### Downloading the Cacti software

Once the OS packages are installed we need to download the Cacti files you can do this by using the git command

    git clone https://github.com/Cacti/cacti.git
    Cloning into 'cacti'...
    remote: Enumerating objects: 81, done.
    remote: Counting objects: 100% (81/81), done.
    remote: Compressing objects: 100% (55/55), done.
    remote: Total 59936 (delta 40), reused 51 (delta 26), pack-reused 59855&
    Receiving objects: 100% (59936/59936), 76.33 MiB | 1.81 MiB/s, done.
    Resolving deltas: 100% (43598/43598), done.

After downloading the cacti files move the files into the /var/www/html directory

mv cacti /var/www/html

#### Database Creation

Next we will create a database for the cacti installation to use

    mysql -u root -p
    CREATE DATABASE cacti DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci ;
    GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON cacti.* TO 'cacti'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'cacti';
    GRANT SELECT ON mysql.time_zone_name TO cacti@localhost;
    ALTER DATABASE cacti CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
    FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

we will now need to pre-populate the database used by cacti

    mysql -u root cacti < /var/www/html/cacti/cacti.sql

Now we are ready to start configuring cacti we have need to edit the config.php file locating in /var/www/html/cacti/include

    cd /var/www/html/cacti/include
    cp config.php.dist config.php

make changes as needed to the below entries

    $database_type     = 'mysql';
    $database_default  = 'cacti';
    $database_hostname = 'localhost';
    $database_username = 'cactiuser';
    $database_password = 'cactiuser';
    $database_port     = '3306';
    $database_retries  = 5;
    $database_ssl      = false;
    $database_ssl_key  = '';

The system is now ready to go just surf to yourip/cacti to start the cacti initalization

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