Anyone successfully got Cacti running on 2.0.1?
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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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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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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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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
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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.htmlbasically install these;
* net/net-snmp
* mysqlfor 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_indexescreate 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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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..