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It does appear that Yum caused the problem. It updated you to CentOS 4.2. My 2 test boxes updated the first night I had them running, but they didn't have the same issue of mysql dying. I will play around with them and see if I can reproduce it.

With the necessity of keeping up with security updates, I would dare not turn off Yum by default without seeing a more wide spread issue.

We have been running it on a test server for a week now with much success.
Here are a few things that we have noticed:
Unable to get mactrack to work
Would like to run Cacti as a less privileged user

Other than that, it all works great

Great, glad to see that its working so far.

Mac Track is really still in Beta by the author. There are lots of little quirks in it, and it did take me a day or so to figure it all out and get it working on my network. The main thing is to point it to a switch that has user ports (select Switch as the type) and add the router directly behind this switch (select router, not router/switch for this one). If your switch/router isn't already in the Device type list, you will manually have to add it to the scanner file, as it currently seems to ignore the database and use all hardcoded devices. You can also use the command line switches to "/f /d" to try and debug what is happening. You can see more about this on the thread for this plugin over on the Cacti forums.

What user would you want apache to run as? It already currently is ran as user "apache", which seems fairly locked down to me already. Its the default that CentOS ships with, but if you feel that we should restrict it further, just let me know how and I will make it happen.

actually, I was referring to the user who runs the cactid proc via cron

Ahhh, well that is something that we can easily take care of. I will just have to make sure it doesn't break anything first. I will do some testing today and see what happens.

Just so you know, I am currently on vacation, but development is still continuing. Here are a few of the changes that I have currently implemented.


I am currently working on SSL for Apache with a self signed certificate. The backup plugin still needs a lot of work. Is there anything else that anyone would like to see added?

I will be uploading a new version for testing on Jan 2 or so.

EDIT: Apache SSL is now running and enabled by default with a Self Signed certificate.

Awesome! can't wait to try it out.
The only other things that would be good to have are some custom templates such as fired interface, fired cpu, APC (Lit's template is very good), pecent bandwidth...

Thanks for all your effort on this

-Eric

Jimmy, if it helps any, I can put a box on the net for you use for a mirror.
We have two 100mb pipes for internet access. Hell, I'll install the Cacti CD on it & add either proftpd or vsftpd on it as well as http download,etc.

pm me through the cacti.net forum & I'll send you the ip address & login

Thanks for the offer, I may take you up on it once this goes live, but for the time being, I'm barely utilizing the bandwidth I have on the other server so it should be fine. I will probably be creating a torrent once this is finalized, and will have 2-3 hosts solidly seeding (plus the direct HTTP download).

I do plan on adding a lot more templates to the CD, once I everything else nailed down and done. When Cacti v0.8.6h officially comes out (I'm currently testing beta 4) I will upgrade it to that, and we should be good to go and can go live with it. I will be uploading a new beta on Tuesday (I'm at home at the moment, on a 21K dialup, so I could spend 3 days solid doing it from here, or just wait until I have a chance to get to a fast connection).

I'm currently working on the Backup plugin, hopefully it will be completed soon. The current version is going to be somewhat "dependent" on you using the Cacti CD, but once its complete, everything will be pretty much independent and could even be used on a Windows box.

By the way, would anyone be interested in having NTop and Netflow installed by default (but not running by default). In case anyone doesn't know what Netflow is, here is a good description.

Ntop is then used to give you useful information on almost everything about your network traffic.

Here are links to some more information on them.
Netflow
NTop
We currently use them at work, with a little extra twist. We log all flow data to a database and keep it for 7 days (its very useful to do SQL Queries against). This ofcourse can get very large, very quickly (our current 7 day database is roughly 4.5 gigs). I probably won't add this part of it unless someone specifically asks for it though.

ntop & netflow would be very helpful to have as well...

In case anyone is bored, or doesn't want to test out the CD, I went ahead and created a quick "Install Video" using VMWare. Its 5 Megs and 2:44 minutes long, but it shows the very simple process. I removed all frames that don't actually change (Its a nice option in VMWare), so it may seem like it installing really fast, but in real life it took a total of 4 and a half mintues to install.

Enjoy
Cacti Install Video

Yes,I am interesting in your NTop and Netflow included in Cacti CD by default!

Today I have installed NTop,is NTop 3.2 for SUSE included Netflow,I am newble.Thanks!

How far could your new version Cacti CD (NTop and Netflow included) be download?

Respects your industrious works!

Jiimy, this CD sounds excellent. I would be interested in having NTop with the option you have to log data to a database too.

I'm looking forward to you official release, my current install of Cacti and Ntop is mess to say the least! :-)

Thanks,
Sap

I have now uploaded beta 3. NTop is installed, but not configured since most of it has to be done specifically for your network, and thus can't be automated (maybe possible to make it configurable in Cacti).

Netflow integration will be added in Beta 4 (time is my enemy). Also, this is using beta 4 of v0.8.6h, so its not the newest released version yet (but it all works), so Cacti will be updated in Beta 4 also.

I plan on adding all the templates in Beta 4, so what I need is a list (with links) of the different templates that everyone is interested in seeing on the CD. Let me know what you want, and I will get it put in the next version. I hope to release it the middle of next week, so let me know!