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Cacti, SNMP and Gentoo

Here are the instructions I followed to get SNMP and Cacti working on Gentoo:

emerge cacti cacti-cactid
groupadd cacti
useradd -g cacti -G cron cactiuser

cd /var/www/localhost/htdocs/cacti/
mysql –user=root cacti < cacti.sql
chown -R cactiuser rra/ log/
mysql
mysql> create database cactidb;
mysql> grant all on cactidb.* to root;
mysql> grant all on cactidb.* to root@localhost;
mysql> grant all on cactidb.* to cactiuser;
mysql> grant all on cactidb.* to cactiuser@localhost;
mysql> set password for cactiuser@localhost=password(‘mycactipw’);
mysql> exit

nano config.php

$database_type = "mysql";
$database_default = "cacti";
$database_hostname = "localhost";
$database_username = "cactiuser";
$database_password = "mycactipw";

Now open browser to http://localhost/cacti

Follow the steps:

Login as admin password admin
change password

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Enable SNMP performance monitoring on HP-UX

Log onto the operator station using telnet

Go to the /etc/rc.config.d directory:

cd /etc/rc.config.d

Edit the following files using vi:

  • SnmpHpunix
  • SnmpMaster
  • SnmpMib2

Vi isn’t easy to use, I suggest you check out http://csep1.phy.ornl.gov/unix_guide/node13.html or http://thomer.com/vi/vi.html

In each file change the line:

SNMP_HPUNIX_START=0

to

SNMP_HPUNIX_START=1

Now start the Snmp daemon from the shell:

snmpd

It’s now working, check it is by either using top or:

ps -ef | grep snmpd

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