Cacti 0.8 Beginner's Guide

Time for action – installing the settings plugin

1. Go to the plugins web page at http://docs.cacti.net/plugins.
2. Click on the Settings plugin.
3. Right-click on the download link and copy the link target to the clipboard.
4. Logon to your Cacti installation as root using PuTTY.
5. Go to the new plugins directory:

   cd /var/www/html/cacti/plugins
   

6. Download the settings plugin using the following command:

   wget -O settings-v0.7-1.tgz http://docs.cacti.net/_media/plugin:settings-v0.7-1.tgz?id=plugin%3Asettings&cache=cache
   

7. Extract the archive:

   tar -xzvf settings-v0.7-1.tgz
   

8. Logon to your Cacti web interface using a user with Plugin Management permissions.
9. Go to Configuration | Plugin Management.
10. You should now be able to see the settings plugin in the list of available ...