Installing Cacti 0.8.8h and php weathermap 0.98 on CentOS 7

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Installing Cacti 0.8.8h and php weathermap 0.98 on CentOS 7

Overview
Cacti is an open-source, web-based network monitoring and graphing tool used to get a graph data such as CPU usage, memory usage, network bandwidth utilization, and more. It can graph the network traffic by polling a router or switch using SNMP protocol.
In this article will show how to install Cacti on CentOS 7. To use PHP weathermap cacti plugin, the Cacti version that need to download is 0.8.8h.
Prerequisites
In this tutorial, it is supposed that:
a. You have already install RHEL/CentOS 7 Linux server up and running. In case that you don’t, you would probably like to read this link. Minimal RHEL/CentOS 7 Installation With Logical Volume Manager (LVM).
b. You have already done the initial server setup. Please refer to this link Minimal RHEL/CentOS 7 Initial Server Setup.
Install and Configure Database for Cacti Application
In CentOS 7, MySQl is moved to MariaDB, execute the following command to install MariaDB.

yum -y install mariadb-server mariadb-devel

Enable MariaDB service to start it a the system boot and start its service.

systemctl enable mariadb

systemctl start mariadb

Now let do the security hardening of MariaDB by execute the following command.

mysql_secure_installation

We need to create a database and a user for Cacti application and grant it all database privileges.

mysql -u root -p

create database cacti;
create user ‘cacti’@‘localhost’ identified by ‘cacti’;
grant all privileges on cacti.* to cacti@localhost;
flush privileges;

Installing Cacti Application

yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

yum install yum-utils

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php56 [Install PHP 5.6]

yum install php php-mcrypt php-cli php-gd php-curl php-mysql php-ldap php-zip php-fileinfo

To install Cacti web application, we need to install some mandatory packages as the following first.

yum -y install php php-cli php-mysql net-snmp-utils rrdtool php-snmp gcc net-snmp-devel autoconf automake libtool dos2unix wget help2man php-gd php-ldap php-pear php-common php-devel php-mbstring net-snmp-utils net-snmp-libs httpd

Enable Apache service to start it a the system boot and start its service.

systemctl enable httpd

systemctl start httpd

Enable SNMP service to start it a the system boot and start its service.

systemctl enable snmpd

systemctl start snmpd

Let move to the installation directory for Cacti application, /var/www, download and extract it.

cd /opt

mkdir cacti

cd cacti

wget http://www.cacti.net/downloads/cacti-0.8.8h.tar.gz

tar -xzvf cacti-0.8.8h.tar.gz

It is recommended to create a symbolic link to the extracted directory of Cacti application “cacti-1.1.10”. So, it will make us easy to upgrades Cacti to a newer versions.

mv cacti-0.8.8h cacti

Also, we need to create a user for Cacti application and make sure that the permissions on the log and rra directories are set correctly as the following.

adduser -d /opt/cacti -s /sbin/nologin cacti

chown -R apache:apache /opt/cacti

chown -R cacti /opt/cacti/cacti/rra

Now we need to add a cron entry for a 1 minute polling interval of Cacti application using the following command.

vim /etc/cron.d/cacti

*/1 * * * * cacti php /opt/cacti/cacti/poller.php --debug --force &>/dev/null

Or：

su – cacti

$ crontab -e
/bin/php /opt/cacti/cacti/poller.php --debug –force

*/1 * * * * /usr/bin/php /opt/cacti/cacti/poller.php --debug –force > /dev/null 2>&1
Now, let import Cacti application database into the database created using the following command.

mysql -p cacti < /opt/cacti/cacti/cacti.sql

Next, we need to change some settings for database credentials in configuration file of Cacti application.

vim /opt/cacti/cacti/include/config.php

$database_type = ‘mysql’;
$database_default = ‘cacti’;
$database_hostname = ‘localhost’;
$database_username = ‘cacti’;
$database_password = ‘cacti’;
$database_port = ‘3306’;
$database_ssl = false;
Next, we need to open HTTP port 80 on IPTables.

vim /etc/sysconfig/iptables

-A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT

systemctl restart iptables

iptables -L -n -v

Usually, the default PHP installation usually has not configured the correct timezone or php error reporting. While not required to run Cacti, it’s highly recommended to enable error reporting to syslog for troubleshooting issues with plugins or other scripts. Edit file /etc/php.ini as the following.

vim /etc/php.ini

date.timezone = Asia/Shanghai
log_errors = syslog
Then, we need to restart Apache service.

systemctl restart httpd

We also need to disable SELinux.

vim /etc/selinux/config

SELINUX=disabled

reboot

Configure VHost for Cacti Application
To create a VHost for Cacti application, create a *.conf file in directory /etc/httpd/conf.d as the following.

vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/cacti.conf

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /opt/cacti/
ServerName cacti.domain.com
CustomLog /opt/cacti/logs/access_log combined
ErrorLog /opt/cacti/logs/error_log
<Directory “/opt/cacti/”>
AllowOverride All
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
Require all granted

Then, we need to restart Apache service.

systemctl restart httpd

Finally, we are ready to install Cacti application. In your broswer, in the address box type in http://cacti.techspacekh.com and the following windows appears.

Cacti Default Password Default Username and password of Cacti Web Admin in Ubuntu Debian or Windows Default URL : User Name : admin Password : admin
Change the password to cacti
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