Install Cacti (Network Monitoring) on Ubuntu Server

Cacti Required Packages

The Cacti required following packages to be installed on your Linux operating systems. I am using Ubuntu Server.

1. Update Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install update

2. Required Packages for Cacti

sudo apt-get install -y apache2 php5 php5-mysql php5-snmp php5-gd libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server rrdtool

3. SNMP and SNMPd

sudo apt-get -y install snmp snmpd

4. Installation of Cacti

sudo apt-get -y install cacti cacti-spine

we need to start the snmpd service.

sudo /etc/init.d/snmpd start

Now you can access http://ip-of-you-server/cacti after installation, the first login, the default account and password are “admin”.

Select new install and click Next

If everything is green, which it should be if you followed all the steps, click Next.

Login with user name admin & password admin .. next screen prompt you to change password…

to be continued ….