On this page.This tutorial will show you how to install and configure Cacti network monitoring tool from source to ensure that you get the latest version on Debian 9, codename Stretch.Cacti is a web-based network monitoring tool, completely open source, designed to display network and system graphics via RRDtool. Next, fire up a new command in order to install some necessary utilities that will be used to further manage your system from command line. Apt install wget patch unzip zip bash-completionCacti is a web-based monitoring tool mostly written in PHP server-side programming language. In order to run the Cacti php file scripts, a web server, such as Apache HTTP server, and a PHP interpreter must be installed and functional in the system.
In order to install Apache web server and the PHP interpreter alongside with all required PHP modules needed by Cacti to run properly, issue the following command in your server console. Apt install apache2 libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0 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-mcryptAfter Apache and PHP have been installed, test if the web server is up and running and listening for network connections on port 80 by issuing the following command with root privileges. Netstat –tlpnIn case netstat network utility is not installed by default on your Debian system, execute the below command to install it.
Apt install net-toolsBy inspecting the netstat command output you can see that apache daemon is listening for incoming network connections on port 80.In case you have a firewall enabled on your system, such as UFW firewall application, you should add a new rule to allow HTTP traffic to pass through the firewall by issuing the following command. Ufw allow WWWor ufw allow 80/tcpFinally, test if the Apache web server default web page can be displayed in your client's browser by visiting your Debian machine IP address via HTTP protocol, as shown in the below image. If you don’t know your machine IP address, execute ' ifconfig' or ' ip a' commands. My IP in this setup is: the next step, we need to make some further changes to PHP default configuration file in order to assure that the fileuploads variable is enabled and the PHP timezone setting is correctly configured and matches your system physical location. Open /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini file for editing and assure that the following lines are set up as follows. Fileuploads = Ondate.timezone = Europe/LondonReplace the timezone variable accordingly to your physical time zone by consulting the list of timezones provided by PHP docs at the following linkAfter you’ve made the required changes, create a php info file and restart apache daemon to apply changes by issuing the following commands.
Echo ' tee /var/www/html/info.php systemctl restart apache2Check if the PHP timezone has been correctly configured by visiting the php info script from a browser at the following URL (as illustrated in the below image). Scroll down to date setting to check php timezone setting.Cacti monitoring tool stores configurations and collected data in an RDBMS database.
In this tutorial, we’ll configure Cacti with MariaDB database backend. Issue the below command to install MariaDB database and the PHP module needed to access mysql database. Apt install mariadb-server php7.0-mysqlAfter you’ve installed MariaDB, verify that the daemon is running and listens for network connections on localhost, port 3306, by running netstat command. Netstat –tlpn grep mysqlThen log into MySQL console and secure MariaDB root account by issuing the following commands. Mysql -h localhost use mysql;update user set plugin=' where user='root';flush privileges;exitIn the next step, secure MariaDB by executing the script mysqlsecureinstallation provided by the installation package from Debian Stretch repository. While running, the script will ask a series of questions to secure the MariaDB database, such as: to change MySQL root password, to remove anonymous users, to disable remote root logins and to delete the test database.
Execute the script by issuing the below command and assure you type yes to all questions asked in order to fully secure MySQL daemon. Use the below script output except as a guide. Sudo mysqlsecureinstallation NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MariaDB SERVERS IN PRODUCTION USE! PLEASE READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY! In order to log into MariaDB to secure it, we'll need the current password for the root user.
If you've just installed MariaDB, and you haven't set the root password yet, the password will be blank, so you should just press enter here. Enter current password for root (enter for none): OK, successfully used password, moving on. Setting the root password ensures that nobody can log into the MariaDB root user without the proper authorisation. You already have a root password set, so you can safely answer 'n'. Change the root password? Y/n y New password: Re-enter new password: Password updated successfully!
Reloading privilege tables. By default, a MariaDB installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone to log into MariaDB without having to have a user account created for them. This is intended only for testing, and to make the installation go a bit smoother. You should remove them before moving into a production environment. Remove anonymous users? Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from 'localhost'.
This ensures that someone cannot guess at the root password from the network. Disallow root login remotely?
By default, MariaDB comes with a database named 'test' that anyone can access. This is also intended only for testing, and should be removed before moving into a production environment. Remove test database and access to it? Y/n y - Dropping test database. Removing privileges on test database.
Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes made so far will take effect immediately. Reload privilege tables now? If you've completed all of the above steps, your MariaDB installation should now be secure. Thanks for using MariaDB!In order to test MariaDB security, try to login to the database from console with no root password. The access to the database should be denied if no password is provided for the root account. If the password is supplied, the login process should be granted to MySQL console, as shown in the below screenshot.
Mysql -h localhost -u root mysql -h localhost -u root –pWhile logged in to MariaDB database, go ahead and create a database for Cacti installation and create the user that will be used to manage cacti database, by issuing the following commands. Replace the cacti database user and password accordingly. Create database cacti;grant all on cacti. to 'cactiuser'@'localhost' identified by 'cactipass';flush privileges;exitAlso, grant select permissions to the cacti database user for MySQL time zone by issuing the below commands. This is a new requirement in order to install and run the latest release of Cacti. Mysql -u root -p mysql After you’ve made the proper changes to snmpd.conf file, save and close the file and restart snmp daemon to reflect changes by issuing the below commands. Then check the snmpd daemon status and the owned ports in listening state.
Systemctl restart snmpd.service systemctl status snmpd.service netstat -tulpn grep snmpOpen firewall port for SNMP: ufw allow 161/udpIn order to verify that the SNMP daemon is working as expected and retrieves all the SNMP values under memory tree for localhost, run the below command. Snmpwalk -v 2c -c snmpstring localhost memoryInstall Cacti-SpineCacti-Spine is a replacement for the default cmd.php poller, written in C for faster execution time. In order to compile and install Cacti-Spine pooler from sources in Debian 9, first, execute the following command in order to install all the required dependencies into the system. Apt install build-essential dos2unix dh-autoreconf help2man libssl-dev libmysql-dev libmariadb-dev libmariadbclient-dev librrds-perl libsnmp-devNext, download the latest version of Cacti-Spine tar compressed archive with wget utility, extract the tarball archive and enter cacti-spine extracted directory by issuing the following commands. Wget tar xfz cacti-spine-latest.tar.gz cd cacti-spine-1.1.24/Now, compile and install Cacti-Spine utility from sources by issuing the below commands./bootstrap./configure make make installCacti-Spine will be installed in /usr/local/spine/ system path.
Spine recommends that you set the SUID bit for the spine binary in order to support ICMP ping requests. Chown root:root /usr/local/spine/bin/spine chmod +s /usr/local/spine/bin/spineYou must also connect Spine to the cacti database by editing the configuration file with as shown in the below file excerpt. Nano /usr/local/spine/etc/spine.confspine.conf file sample. Replace the credentials accordingly.
Use the same database credentials as configured for Cacti. DBHost localhostDBDatabase cactiDBUser usercactiDBPass passcactiDBPort 3306DBPreG 0Install CactiIn order to install Cacti from sources in Debian 9, first, download and extract the latest version of Cacti tarball compressed archive, then copy all the extracted files to apache web root path, by issuing the following commands. Wget tar xfz cacti-latest.tar.gz cp -rf cacti-1.1.24/. /var/www/html/In the next step, open cacti configuration file and update the following lines to reflect MySQL cacti database username, password, host and URL path accordingly, as illustrated in the below example.
Nano /var/www/html/include/config.phpCacti config.php file sample: $databasetype = 'mysql';$databasedefault = 'cacti';$databasehostname = 'localhost';$databaseusername = 'cactiuser';$databasepassword = 'cactipass';$databaseport = '3306';$databasessl = false;Scroll down and change the path variable from “/cacti” to “ /” $urlpath = '/';Next, you need to populate cacti database by loading the cacti.sql script located in your web server document root location and verify cacti mysql tables by issuing the below commands. Mysql -u cactiuser cacti -p Configuration - Settings - Poller and change the poller type from cmd.php to spine binary, as shown in the below image. Scroll down and hit the Save button to apply changes.Then navigate to Console - Configuration - Settings - Paths and update Cacti-Spine and set the configuration file path to the following path /usr/local/spine/etc/spine.conf and hit on Save button to apply configuration, as illustrated in the below image.In order to add a new device to be monitored via SNMP, go to Console - Management - Devices and hit on + icon, as illustrated in the below image.
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For demonstration purposes, we’ll add the localhost machine to be monitored by Cacti via SNMP protocol.For the newly added Linux device that will be monitored via SNMP, add a description for the device, the hostname, FQDN or the IP address of the monitored device and select Local Linux Machine as device template. In SNMP options, select the proper SNMP Version (in this case we’ll use the version 2) and write your device SNMP community string, as described in the below images. In case the SNMP port hasn’t been changed, leave the port value as default and, when you finish, scroll down and hit on Create button to add the device to Cacti database in order to be monitored.After the device has been added to Cacti database, an SNMP summary will be displayed on top of the device page in case the device was properly detected and queried. When issuing the line mysql -u cactiuser cacti -p.
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Chapter 3.Installing Under WindowsInstallations. Download and install the following pieces of software:. (optional)and install it to c:apacheor c:apache2.Make sure to install it as a service.and extract it to the root of your web server directory.Typically c:inetpubwwwrootor c:apache2.and extract it to c:cactid.and extract it to c:rrdtool. and extract it to c:php.or. 5.0 is not supported unless you run it in compatibility mode and with the MySQL 5 patch.Install it to c:mysql. (optional).Download setup.exeand keep it around until later used in the document. (optional)and install to c:net-snmp.Configure PHP.If using PHP 4, move the files in c:phpdllsto c:php.Add the following to your Windows PATH environmentvariable c:php.