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Month: August 2016

Cacti Sandbox

Cacti Sandbox

Introduction Having a sandbox is great way to test your disaster recovery methods.  I’ll step through a process that makes a backup of the Cacti data.  Then we can use that backup file to restore from as needed. There are some prerequirements to the steps I’ll be using.  These are LAMP, phpMyAdmin, Webmin, Cacti, and a ssh client. Do keep in mind that any plugins or templates that are not standard are not included in this backup.  This simply gives…

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Installing Cacti on a Raspberry Pi

Installing Cacti on a Raspberry Pi

Here is some Background before we get started. I had originally posted about setting up Cacti on the Raspberry Pi a few posts back.  Since there was plenty of on line tutorials, I just made references to sites that have since changed their content.  When I returned to the subject recently, I found that the steps were plagued with antiquated commands Ultimately, I was able to find the compile a list of commands that will help you get Cacti operational…

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