CACTI INSTALLATION GUIDE ON WINDOWS 2000

Rev. A1 By Uus Noviardi (2008-11-04)

Contents
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Overview ....................................................................... 3 Requirements ............................................................... 3 Installing WAMP 2.0c ................................................... 3 Installing Net-SNMP 5.4.2 .......................................... 10 Installing RRDTool 1.2.28 .......................................... 13 Installing Cacti 0.8.7a................................................. 15 Post-Installation ......................................................... 17 7.1 Apache setup ................................................. 17 7.2 MySQL Setup ................................................. 18 7.2.1 Updating Root password (optional) ................ 18 7.2.2 Create the MySQL database.......................... 19 7.2.3 Import the default Cacti database .................. 19 7.2.4 Create a MySQL username and password for Cacti. .............................................................. 20 7.3 Cacti Setup..................................................... 21 7.3.1 Updating Cacti config file ............................... 21 7.3.2 Web installation process ................................ 21 7.4 Install SNMP Agent on Windows 2000........... 25 7.5 Adding graphs for localhost on Cacti.............. 33 7.6 Installing CRON for windows.......................... 40

Overview

This document is a procedure to setup CACTI on a PC/Server with Windows 2000 OS.

Requirements

The following files are required download to install CACTI:

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WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP) 2.0c http://www.wampserver.com/en/download.php or http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=116092 RRDTool 1.2.28 http://www.gknw.net/mirror/rrdtool/rrdtool-1.2.28-bin-w32.zip Net-SNMP 5.4.2-1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/net-snmp/net-snmp-5.4.21.win32.exe?modtime=1222072245&big_mirror=1

Cacti for Windows 0.8.7a http://www.cacti.net/downloads/cacti-0.8.7a.zip 5 Cron http://www.kalab.com/freeware/cron/cron.htm The following files are optional Cactid 0.8.6 http://www.cacti.net/downloads/cactid/packages/Windows/cacti-cactid-0.8.6k.zip 2 Spine 0.8.7a http://www.cacti.net/downloads/spine/packages/Windows/cacti-spine-0.8.7a.zip
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3 Installing WAMP 2.0c

Start installing WAMP 2.0c by double-click the installation icon, then the setup window will show. Follow the installation step as follow:

After the installation completed then verified by using your browser (ex. IE), put URL http://localhost and page will be shown like this

To verify the PHP you can click the phpinfo() from the homepage.

4 Installing Net-SNMP 5.4.2

Start installing Net-SNMP 5.4.2 by double-click the installation icon, then the setup window will show. Follow the installation step as follow:

5 Installing RRDTool 1.2.28

Start installing RRDTool 1.2.28 by extrating the zip file (rrdtool-1.2.28-bin-w32.zip). Heres the example by using winzip to extract the files.

RRDTool will have directory structure like C:\rrdtool-1.2.28-bin-w32\rrdtool. Then move rrdtool directory up to c:\wamp then remove rrdtool-1.2.28-bin-w32 directory until become structure C:\wamp\rrdtool

Copy font files (*.ttf) from C:\wamp\rrdtool to c:\winnt\fonts by execute the command: C:\wamp\rrdtool>copy *.ttf c:\winnt\fonts Or you can use windows explorer

To verify the rrdtools, execute rrdtool from rrdtool directory as follows:

6 Installing Cacti 0.8.7a

Cacti 0.8.7a can be installed by extrating the cacti zip file (cacti-0.8.7a.zip). Heres the example by using winzip to extract the files.

7 Post-Installation
7.1 Apache setup
Edit apache alias

7.2 MySQL Setup

7.2.1 Updating Root password (optional)

It is recommended to set a password for the root user, but if you dont want you, you can skip to next step.
shell> cd mysql\bin shell> mysqladmin --user=root password somepassword shell> mysqladmin --user=root --password reload

7.2.2 Create the MySQL database

Execute command below to create cacti database
c:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.0.51b\bin>mysqladmin --user=root -password create cacti

or

7.2.3 Import the default Cacti database

Execute command below to create cacti database:
c:\wamp\apps\cacti0.8.7a>c:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.0.51b\bin\mysql --user=root [-password] cacti < cacti.sql i.sql

7.2.4 Create a MySQL username and password for Cacti.

Execute command below o create a MySQL username & password for cacti:
shell> mysql --user=root --password mysql mysql> GRANT ALL ON cacti.* TO cactiuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'somepassword'; mysql> flush privileges;

If you are running MySQL 4.1 and above, you will need to apply the old password setting in order to authenticate with Cacti. To make this change, stop the MySQL service and add the following to the Start Parameter field. Start it again once it has been added. --old-password You will also need to update the cactiuser account with the old password style.
shell> UPDATE mysql.user SET Password = OLD_PASSWORD('cactiuser') WHERE Host = 'localhost' AND User = 'cactiuser'; mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

7.3 Cacti Setup

7.3.1 Updating Cacti config file
Edit cacti config file (C:\wamp\apps\cacti-0.8.7a\include\config.php) to reflect MySQL cacti database
/* make sure these values refect your actual database/host/user/password */ $database_type = "mysql"; $database_default = "cacti"; $database_hostname = "localhost"; $database_username = "cactiuser"; $database_password = "cactiuser"; $database_port = "3306";

7.3.2 Web installation process

Open browser (ex. IE) then put URL http://localhost/cacti . Installation opening page will be shown, then follow all the installation instruction process from the browser.

RRDTool Binary Path:

C:/wamp/rrdtool/rrdtool.exe
PHP Binary Path:

C:/wamp/bin/php/php5.2.6/php.exe
snmpwalk Binary Path:

C:/wamp/netsnmp/bin/snmpwalk.exe
snmpget Binary Path:

C:/wamp/netsnmp/bin/snmpget.exe
snmpbulkwalk Binary Path:

C:/wamp/netsnmp/bin/snmpbulkwalk.exe
snmpgetnext Binary Path:

C:/wamp/netsnmp/bin/snmpgetnext.exe
Cacti Log File Path:

C:/wamp/apps/cacti-0.8.7a/log/cacti.log

Login with user/password = admin/admin, then replace with newpassword if necessary.

7.4 Install SNMP Agent on Windows 2000

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Select Add/Remove Windows Components

Setup SNMP

Open Services from Control Panel -> Administrative Tools

Verify

Snmpwalk v2c c public localhost 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1

7.5 Adding graphs for localhost on Cacti

+ Running data query [1]. + Found type = '3' [snmp query]. + Found data query XML file at 'C:/wamp/apps/cacti-0.8.7a/resource/snmp_queries/interface.xml' + XML file parsed ok. + Executing SNMP walk for list of indexes @ '.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.1' + Located input field 'ifIndex' [walk] + Executing SNMP walk for data @ '.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.1' + Found item [ifIndex='1'] index: 1 [from value] + Found item [ifIndex='2'] index: 2 [from value] + Found item [ifIndex='16777220'] index: 16777220 [from value] + Found item [ifIndex='16777221'] index: 16777221 [from value] + Located input field 'ifOperStatus' [walk] + Executing SNMP walk for data @ '.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.8' + Found item [ifOperStatus='Up'] index: 1 [from value] + Found item [ifOperStatus='Down'] index: 2 [from value] + Found item [ifOperStatus='Down'] index: 16777220 [from value] + Found item [ifOperStatus='Up'] index: 16777221 [from value] + Located input field 'ifDescr' [walk] + Executing SNMP walk for data @ '.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2' + Found item [ifDescr='MS TCP Loopback interface'] index: 1 [from value] + Found item [ifDescr='Bluetooth PAN Driver'] index: 2 [from value] + Found item [ifDescr='Ericsson Virtual Security Adapter'] index: 16777220 [from value] + Found item [ifDescr='Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Driver'] index: 16777221 [from value] + Located input field 'ifName' [walk] + Executing SNMP walk for data @ '.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.1' + Located input field 'ifAlias' [walk] + Executing SNMP walk for data @ '.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.18' + Located input field 'ifType' [walk] + Executing SNMP walk for data @ '.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.3' + Found item [ifType='softwareLoopback'] index: 1 [from value] + Found item [ifType='ethernetCsmacd'] index: 2 [from value] + Found item [ifType='ethernetCsmacd'] index: 16777220 [from value] + Found item [ifType='ethernetCsmacd'] index: 16777221 [from value] + Located input field 'ifSpeed' [walk] + Executing SNMP walk for data @ '.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.5' + Found item [ifSpeed='10000000'] index: 1 [from value] + Found item [ifSpeed='700000'] index: 2 [from value] + Found item [ifSpeed='10000000'] index: 16777220 [from value] + Found item [ifSpeed='100000000'] index: 16777221 [from value] + Located input field 'ifHwAddr' [walk] + Executing SNMP walk for data @ '.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.6' + Found item [ifHwAddr=''] index: 1 [from value] + Found item [ifHwAddr='00:16:41:7B:0F:C1'] index: 2 [from value] + Found item [ifHwAddr='00:01:EC:10:10:11'] index: 16777220 [from value] + Found item [ifHwAddr='00:15:60:C4:B2:F4'] index: 16777221 [from value] + Located input field 'ifIP' [walk] + Executing SNMP walk for data @ '.1.3.6.1.2.1.4.20.1.2' + Found item [ifIP='0.0.0.0'] index: 2 [from regexp oid parse] + Found item [ifIP='127.0.0.1'] index: 1 [from regexp oid parse] + Found item [ifIP='150.236.178.142'] index: 16777221 [from regexp oid parse] + Found data query XML file at 'C:/wamp/apps/cacti-0.8.7a/resource/snmp_queries/interface.xml' + Found data query XML file at 'C:/wamp/apps/cacti-0.8.7a/resource/snmp_queries/interface.xml' + Found data query XML file at 'C:/wamp/apps/cacti-0.8.7a/resource/snmp_queries/interface.xml'

Perform: Verbose Query or Reload query data for 1. SNMP Get Mounted Partition 2. SNMP Get Processor Information 3. SNMP Interface Statistics Create Graph for this host

Help is on C:\wamp\apps\cacti-0.8.7a\docs\html\install_windows.html Test cacti poller C:\wamp\apps\cacti-0.8.7a>C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.6\php poller.php

Devices -> localhost -> Create Graph for this host Click Data Query right icons (green circle)

Create cacti batch file for poller in C:\cactipoller.bat cd C:\wamp\apps\cacti-0.8.7a C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.6\php poller.php

7.6 Installing CRON for windows

Execute ntsetup.exe

Install & put to directory C:\wamp\bin

Install crons service, create crontab file on c:\winnt\system32, start cron

To check cron service runner properly or not, execute Shell> type c:\winnt\system32\cron.log