Time for action – installing CereusReporting

  1. Logon to your Cacti installation as root.
  2. Change to the plugins directory of your Cacti installation:
    cd /var/www/html/cacti/plugins
  3. Download the latest version:
    wget http://www.network-outsourcing.de/uploads/CereusReporting_v1.50.86_ionCube_full.tgz
  4. Extract the plugin using the tar command:
    tar -xzvf CereusReporting_v1.50.86_ionCube_full.tgz
  5. Change into the newly created directory, nmidCreatePDF:
    cd nmidCreatePDF
  6. Change the ownership of the files to your webserver and Cacti:
    chown -R apache.cactiuser *
  7. CereusReporting uses a threaded approach for creating the graphs. Therefore you are now going to download the extension responsible for it:
    wget http://redmine.nmid-plugins.de/attachments/download/231/parallelGraphRetriever_linux32bit.zip ...

Get Cacti 0.8 Beginner's Guide now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial