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..