A good friend of mine has been writing a few Flash based tutorials on Cacti. He is an avid Cacti user, and whole reason I found and started using Cacti (and eventually developing) in the first place. Years ago when I first introduced the plugin architecture, we had written a plugin with these same types of tutorials, but neither of us can find it now.
He currently has 5 up, but more are certainly to come. He has started with the basics of administrating your CactiEZ server and Cacti, but will be working his way up to some more complex topics. Hopefully someone will find these useful, and even better it may cut down on the support requests I get once all is said and done.
Current Topics
- How to set a static IP in CactiEZ
- How to configure SNMP on your Windows boxes
- How to configure your Cisco device for snmp and to send syslogs
- How to add a host, graph it, and then add it to the tree
- How to create CDEFs
He also has many other topics on their ranging from Cisco and Mikrotik routers to scripts for host fail over with DNS using Webmin, so check it out.
Today, on the eve of the latest Cacti release, I present to you CactEZ v0.6.
This long awaited version adds support for both 32 bit and 64 bit CentOS 4.7 on 1 CD. You will also find the usual updates to all the plugins, plus new plugins such as the WMI plugin (for WMI Queries from Linux) and the Routerconfigs plugin for backing up your Cisco router configurations (with an Internal Diff viewer).
As always, it is available in a direct download of the gzipped ISO format, and now in a torrent as well to improve download performance. Current size is 517.45 MB.
I would like to stress that this CD is meant for new installs only, not as an upgrade path. To upgrade your server to the latest Cacti, follow the normal upgrade directions of Cacti and the Plugin Architecture.
You can download it at its new site http://cactiez.cactiusers.org
With the imminent release of Cacti v0.8.7c, I have released the Plugin Architecture v2.2 which is completely compatible with it.
This version should contain a few minor fixes, and a few new hooks for various future plugins.
A new CactiEZ CD shall be released shortly also.
Please be patient as the site goes through some much needed upgrades. I will be upgrading and integrating the forums, and releasing a complete redesign of the site soon.
If you discover any issues, please feel free to email me.
Today with the release of Cacti v0.8.7b, I have released the latest Plugin Architecture. This version adds a few extra hooks and includes the newest architecture design with some crucial changes.
First, this version requires you to import a SQL file into your Cacti databse (pa.sql). This adds required tables and entries for the Plugin Architecture. This version is backwards compatible with the old PA and plugin, but opens the plugins to be able to move to the new architecture and API functions. Documents on how to migrate your plugins to the new plugin architecture will be available soon, but all your plugins should still work until then.