Installing and configuring Cacti and related software

Cacti application is an open source web-based network monitoring and system monitoring graphing solution for enterprises. Cacti enables a user to poll services at regular intervals to create graphs on resulting data by using the RRDtool. Typically, it is used to graph time-series data of metrics such as network bandwidth utilization, CPU load, running processes, disk space.

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Note: Cacti is supported on RHEL platform only in Network Performance Insight®.

Follow these steps to install and configure Cacti and the related software.

Important: If you have an existing Cacti environment, you can install the Reflector plug-in in it. See Installing the Reflector plug-in.

Note: Cacti must collect the performance metrics that are based on the data templates that are provided in Network Performance Insight software bundle. For more information, see:

Importing performance data templates.
Supported performance metrics from Cacti.