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    Anyone successfully got Cacti running on 2.0.1?

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      luke240778
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      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.

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        Metu69salemi
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        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

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          luke240778
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          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?

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            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            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!  ;)

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              sash99
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              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

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                luke240778
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                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..

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