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jimmy
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 Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:46 pm Post subject: CactiEZ CD beta 4 |
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We now have a new version of the CactiEZ CD to try out.
You can grab the beta copy here.
Link removed as its outdated
Maybe eventually I will throw up a torrent or something.
New in this version
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| Quote: | Upgraded to CentOS 4.3
Updated all plugins and added a few others
Latest Plugin Architecture beta (more hooks!)
Latest official patches for Cacti
Netflow support (listening on port 2055) with it logging to a database
Netflow redirect to NTop (you need to setup the interface on NTop yourself, listening on 2056, which is not allowed through the firewall)
SNMP is now configured to grant access to all OIDs (but not allowed through the firewall for security's sake)
A couple of more Templates added (but not many, since I can't find many extremely useful ones)
Lots of other minor/major fixes |
Things still in the works
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| Quote: | More templates
Upgrade to latest Cacti SVN to fix a few minor errors
Anything else you can think of |
From the original Forum Topic
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I have recently been playing around with the concept of a Cacti CD. I have created an auto-installing CD based on CentOS 4.3. This CD completely installs and configured the OS, NTop 3.1, Netflow, Webmin, Net-SNMP, RRDTool 1.2, Cacti, CactiD, the Plugin Architecture, several plugins, and everything else that is needed for a fully functional system. Everything is all preconfigured and completely working after initial install. This all requires ZERO input from the user except inserting the CD. This should make it very easy for anyone to test out Cacti.
The disk is a completely remastered CD (from the 4 CD version, not the Server CD) and stripped down to the bare essentials (no GUI). The CD weighs in at roughly 372 Meg, and installed is roughly 800 Megs. At only 305 packages, it still includes a preconfigured firewall (only allowing http, ssh, and remote Syslog and few other items).
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nemea
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davidlott
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| Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:56 am Post subject: Bad download? |
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When I tried the CD, I got an error at boot. My system would not even recognize the CD. I'm thinking I got a bad download / file transfer. Would you publish an MD5sum?
BTW, I think the concept is a GREAT idea!
Question, why CentOS? I've not heard of them before. I have been using FC4 because of the broad support. Is there any special reason why you chose CentOS?
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davidlott
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:36 am Post subject: Booting now |
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Ok, I seem to have a clean down load. At least it is booting and installing CentOS.
K3B reports the MD5sum as:
d48e249910c496816f2580de8c695e47
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flavour
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:16 am Post subject: Install to existing CentOS build? |
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Is it possible to have a tarball version of this to install to an existing CentOS build? (Like Asterisk@Home does)
One good example of when you might wish to do this is with Xen virtual servers.
These don't allow booting off an ISO to install a guest OS, but a base CentOS is easy, which could then be added to with the desired tarball 
It would also be useful to those who already had CentOS & wanted a smaller download...
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jimmy
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:27 am Post subject: |
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| nemea wrote: | Screenshot:
Why are messages from ntop categorized as "error"?
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You would have to ask the developers of NTop that, since I don't categorize anything myself, that is how it is sent to the syslog daemon.
| nemea wrote: | These problems are mentioned in Log (newest = last):
localhost.localdomain 2006-03-24 12:28:03 om_mysql_write: 64 messages were lost due to lack of connection notice |
This is because the MySQL daemon doesn't start until after the syslog daemon. I've seen it (it was in the last version too), I just haven't taken the time to figure out how to start the MySQL daemon sooner. Let me know if you find the answer.
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localhost.localdomain 2006-03-24 12:28:14 ntop[2197]: **WARNING** ASN: Unable to open file 'AS-list.txt' err
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Hum... haven't noticed that error, but it could just be an initialization error. Search for the file and see if it shows up. Ntop usually creates the files it needs, but displays errors incase they were suppose to be there in the first place.
| nemea wrote: | localhost.localdomain 2006-03-24 12:28:19 webmin(pam_unix)[2228]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= user=root notice
localhost.localdomain 2006-03-24 12:30:00 login(pam_unix)[2257]: authentication failure; logname=LOGIN uid=0 euid=0 tty=tty1 ruser= rhost= user=root notice
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Did you fail to login to webmin and at the console?
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//reason could be no internetconnection? unimportant for me
localhost.localdomain 2006-03-24 12:34:34 ntop[2197]: **ERROR** CHKVER: Unable to connect socket: Connection timed out(110) err |
Yep, no internet connection, so NTop could not check to see if it was running the latest version, which is isn't, mainly since 3.2 has issues with Netflow.
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jimmy
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:31 am Post subject: Re: Install to existing CentOS build? |
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| flavour wrote: | Is it possible to have a tarball version of this to install to an existing CentOS build? (Like Asterisk@Home does)
One good example of when you might wish to do this is with Xen virtual servers.
These don't allow booting off an ISO to install a guest OS, but a base CentOS is easy, which could then be added to with the desired tarball
It would also be useful to those who already had CentOS & wanted a smaller download...
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Could be possible, only issue would be all the dependecies for Ntop and Netflow. For the most part, you could pull the data off the CD, and look at the ks.cfg script for all the command line operations.
I will look into releasing this way also, just may take me a bit to get everything working as smoothly as the CD version.
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jimmy
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:43 am Post subject: Re: Bad download? |
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| davidlott wrote: | | Question, why CentOS? I've not heard of them before. I have been using FC4 because of the broad support. Is there any special reason why you chose CentOS? |
Fedora Core is basically the test bed for Redhat Enterprise. Which means there is always the possibility that an update will break your system. I know this since several of my production Cacti systems run it, and upgrading them seems to break them every time. I am in the process of upgrading all my systems to CentOS, mainly for its stability.
CentOS is basically Redhat Enterprise without the commercial software, the support, or the Redhat branding. Updates for each version are build from the same sources as the Redhat Enterprise version.
From their site...
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Why does CentOS exist?
CentOS exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform to anyone who wishes to use it. CentOS 2, 3, and 4 are built from publically available open source SRPMS provided by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policies and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.). CentOS is designed for people who need an enterprise class OS without the cost or support of the prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor.
Neither the CentOS Project (we who build CentOS) nor any version of CentOS is affiliated with, produced by, or supported by the prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. Neither does our software contain the upstream vendor's product ... although it is built from the same open source SRPMS as the upstream enterprise products.
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egarnel
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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I thought CentOS existed to piss off computer illterate city managers in Oklahoma
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DwayneDibbley
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| Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:13 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Netflow redirect to NTop (you need to setup the interface on NTop yourself, listening on 2056, which is not allowed through the firewall)
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Can you offer a suggestion on where to configure this is it in the ntop config.
Sorry im a windows users :)
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flavour
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| Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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| DwayneDibbley wrote: |
Can you offer a suggestion on where to configure this is it in the ntop config.
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NTop plugin configured within NTop via the Admin menu, then Plugins
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DwayneDibbley
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:25 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks enabled the NTOP plugin from the admin/plugin menu. On the Netflow device i have set the local collector UDP Port to 2056. Do i need to set the interface address for the virtual netflow interface? I am seeing lotsa of graphs which show a total of 700-800Gb of data so something working :)
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egarnel
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:37 am Post subject: |
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| Does the new beta allow for an upgrade from beta3? I would like to retain my data & other tweaks if at all possible
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eddievenus
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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I agree. I would like to be able to upgrade from the previous beta as well. I am not familiar with Linux enough yet to take on the task of doing all that on my own.
I would be happy if ther were a way to move my data over to the new beta4 build easily, if there is no upgrade path. I have spent a fair amount of time getting this to work, and have deployed it to several machines now. I would be happy to know that all that work is not lost every time I have to upgrade.
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