Cacti Network Monitoring on CentOS 7

Install Cacti Network Monitoring on CentOS 7 

Cacti is an opensource, web-based Network monitoring tool. It is most useful for monitoring and  graphing network bandwidth utilization.

This tutorial shows how to install Cacti network monitoring server on CentOS 7.
The installation is based on the LAMP(Linux Apache MySQL(MariaDb) PHP) stack. Therefore, we shall, first, complete the installation of the LAMP stack and subsequently install Cacti on the stack.

In this tutorial, we shall assume the following scenario:

• Server: Minimal CentOS 7 server
• Hostname: cactiserver.example.com
• IP address: 192.168.88.100

These settings will differ for you, so you may have to replace them appropriately.
We shall also install phpMyAdmin, which is an opensource tool, a graphical front-end for the administration of MariaDb and MySQL databases. This is optional, but is useful in troubleshooting and managing the database.

First off, we shall start by installing the LAMP stack. We shall install the EPEL repo which is required for the installation and update of packages which may not be found in the CentOS base installation and repo.

yum -y install epel-release

Step 1 - Install Apache.

yum -y install httpd

Start Apache...

systemctl start httpd.service

Enable Apache to start at boot time...

systemctl enable httpd.service