Chapter 1. Installing Cacti

Let's get right on with setting up Cacti. Take a look at what we will do next.

In this chapter, we are going to:

  • Install Cacti's prerequisites
  • Install Cacti on both a CentOS and a Windows system
  • Compile and install the spine poller
  • Upgrade an existing Cacti installation
  • Run Cacti for the first time
  • Provide a quick overview on the Cacti web frontend

Here we go….

Preparing the system—basic prerequisites

In order to install and run Cacti, we need to make sure that all system prerequisites are met. Here we'll give an overview of the different components needed.

Web server

As most of Cacti is built as a web interface, a web server is needed. This can be Apache's httpd or Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) if installing ...

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