(Optional) Install and Configure Spine
Spine is a very fast poller engine, written in C. It is an optional replacement for cmd.php. If you decide to use it, you will have to install it explicitely. It does not come with cacti itself. The easiest way is to install Spine using rpm or ports. You will find packages for Spine at the main cacti site or from your distribution. To compile Spine, please download it to any location of your liking. You will require some packages, for Fedora e.g.
- net-snmp-devel
- mysql-devel
- openssl-devel
and the toolchain
- dos2unix
- autoconf
- automake
- binutils
- libtool
- gcc
- cpp
- glibc-headers
- kernel-headers
- glibc-devel
Don't forget to check the official patch download directory and install the patches listed there. To do so, you will require the packages
- wget
- patch
To ease the pre-compilation process, a file bootstrap is provided. So, please issue from the downloaded directory following commands
shell>sh bootstrap shell>./configure shell>make shell>make install
“make install” has to be run as root. Assuming, you've managed to install Spine correctly, you will have to configure it. The configuration file may be placed in the same directory as Spine itself or at /etc/Spine.conf.
DB_Host 127.0.0.1 or hostname (not localhost) DB_Database cacti DB_User cactiuser DB_Pass cacti DB_Port 3306
All other pre 0.8.6 settings are obsolete. With spine087g, there's a new option to run in compat mode when using Cacti pre-087g. It's called
DB_PreG 0
Set it to 0 when using cacti087g. Else, set it to 1.
