Cacti Installation / Migration

10 Aug 2010 by Resident Unix Engineer

These instructions have been tested on RHEL 5 systems.

Steps 1 – 3 apply to new installation as well as migration.

NOTE: mysql and httpd are pre-requisite for cacti. These are not covered here.

Step 1: Download Cacti

*Step 2*: Installation

Step 3: Configuration and Start

*Step 4*: New Installation

Step 5: Migration from OLD Cacti server

Disable cron for cacti on new server

Move mysql DB from old server to new server

Move cacti data from old server to new server

Enable cron for cacti on new server

Verify Cacti is running by making sure graphs are being updated.

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