Start System Services
Cacti requires the following system services (daemons) to be started.
- crond
starts cacti polling - mysqld
stores all administrative data for cacti - httpd
provides the cacti web interface - snmpd (optional)
on the local server is required to poll its snmp based performance data
You should ensure, that on a system restart, those services are restarted as well. System start procedures are under heavy development these days. We have SysV init scripts, upstart and systemd. So things may change …
This example assumes that we're dealing with the httpd web service. Please apply the same procedure to all services above.
Here's how to start httpd as a service. Make sure, that httpd is listed as a service by issuing
chkconfig --list|grep httpd
Activate httpd by
chkconfig httpd on
to find sth like
chkconfig --list|grep httpd httpd 0:Off 1:Off 2:On 3:On 4:On 5:On 6:Off
Now start the service via
service httpd start
Verify via
service httpd status