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Installation of additional Cacti plugins

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How to install additional Cacti plugins

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Steps on how to install additional Cacti plugins:

In this example, we're going to install "aggregate" plugin.

1. Download "aggregate" plugin (aggregate-070b2.tgz) at http://docs.cacti.net/plugins

2. Put and untar "aggregate" pluggin (aggregate-070b2.tgz) into /opt/cacti/plugins (rtm host)

# tar -zxvf /opt/cacti/plugins/aggregate-070b2.tgz

3. Rename "aggregate-070B2" folder to "aggregate"

# ls -ltr
total 1068
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 26 2013 admin
drwxrwxr-x 2 500 500 4096 Mar 29 2009 aggregate-070B2

# mv aggregate-070B2 aggregate

4. Change the folder ownership (user:group) to "root"

# chown -R root:root aggregate

5. At RTM GUI > Console > Configuration > Plugin Management, "Aggregate" plugin appears


    a) At "Actions" column, select "Install Plugin" by clicking "blue (down) arrow" to install the plugin
    b) At "Actions" column, select "Enable Plugin" by clicking "green (right) arrow" to enable the plugin

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Modified date:
17 June 2018

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