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, you will 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 cloning the Cacti repository, 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;

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

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

Next, you will need to create the config.php file in /var/www/html/cacti/include

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

Now, edit the config.php file and make sure to change the database settings as needed to match the below entries (though it is highly recommended to use a customised username/password combination for security)

    $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 finialise the steps by browsing to http://serverip/cacti to start the cacti initalization wizard.

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