Anyone successfully got Cacti running on 2.0.1?

luke240778

Hey all, i am needing someway of reading bandwidth usage better than the RRD graph and have found Cacti. I am wondering how i can install that on my pfsense box.

What i need is someway of seeing how many clients are online at any given time. I can use Lightsquid and see how many access it over a 24h period, but to calculate my oversell percentage i really need someway of seeing per second or per minute exactly how many users are actually online at any given time.

Metu69salemi

if cacti is already a freebsd package, then it could be installed with pkg-add or something similar, but if no freebsd package is done, then you'll have to wait for it. And maybe you could post a bounty for it

luke240778

I'll have a look into that.. but i beleive that it is already available for FreeBSD.

Another question, RRD is on pfSense so am i able to have for example Cacti or another RRD tool on another machine but getting the data from pfSense? Or does it have to be on the same machine?

stephenw10

Cacti can use SNMP to retrieve data from another machine. If you are running it on another server you simple need to enable SNMP on pfSense.

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,35060.0.html

Steve

Edit: Looks like there was some work done on running cacti on pfSense a long time ago.
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,485.0.html
Clearly it's not trivial! ;)

sash99

sure it not a big problem to install cacti on pfsense. i am in the mist of trying to migrated to it instead of bandwidthd.

it pretty easy to install.

follow my instruction thread how to install extra php modules for pfsense and/0r setting up vhost webserver
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,47150.0.html
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,47086.0.html

basically install these;

* net/net-snmp
* mysql

for the following PHP extension modules:

* mysql
* SNMP
* Sockets
* LDAP (Required only when using LDAP authentication)
* GD (Required only for some Plugins)

mv /usr/local/etc/rc.d/snmpd /usr/local/etc/rc.d/snmpd.sh

edit snmpd.sh to enable snmpd

chmod 777 /var/net-snmp
chmod 777 /var/net-snmp/mib_indexes

create a database in mysql called cacti

mysql –password -D cacti < /usr/local/vhosts/cacti/cacti.sql

edit snmpd.sh to enable snmpd

restart pfsense

log in to cacti ( default user/password) admin/admin

setup cati

luke240778

Thanks for the reply. GOod to know it is possible, but as far as your instructions go, i have no idea how to do install it. I am pretty new with all this..