以ports的方法安裝:
#/usr/ports/net/cacti (安裝cacti)
#make install clean
以下資料庫部份可使用phpMyAdmin來完成
1: Create the MySQL database新增一個資料庫)
# mysqladmin --user=root create cacti
2: Create a mysql user/password for cacti新增一位資料庫使用者cactiuser)
(change user and/or password if requered)
# echo "GRANT ALL ON cacti.* TO cactiuser at localhost IDENTIFIED BY '12345'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;" | mysql
(將資料庫cacti的權限給cactiuser,並且更改密碼為12345)
3: Import the default cacti database:
# mysql cacti < /usr/local/share/cacti/cacti.sql
(將cacti.sql的資料import到cacti資料庫)
4: Edit share/cacti/include/db-settings.php:
Specify the MySQL user, password and database for your cacti configuration.
(編輯 cacti 的 config 設定檔)
$database_default = "cacti";
$database_hostname = "localhost";
$database_username = "cactiuser";
$database_password = "12345";
5: Add a line to your /etc/crontab file similar to:
*/5 * * * * cacti /usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/share/cacti/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1
6: Add alias in apache config for the cacti dir:
Alias /cacti "/usr/local/share/cacti/"
7: Open cacti login page in your web browser and login with admin/admin
設定 http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/cacti/
第一次進入的帳號密碼為 admin / admin ,登入前系統會要求你更改新的登入 admin 使用者密碼。