Requirements :

Cacti requires that the following software is installed on your system.

RRDTool 1.0.49 or 1.2.x or greater

MySQL 3.23 or greater, 4.0.20d or greater highly recommended for advanced
features
PHP 4.1 or greater, 4.3.6 or greater highly recommended for advanced features

Packages for RPM-based Operating Systems

httpd
php
php-mysql
php-snmp
mysql
mysql-server
net-snmp
net-snmp-utils

#Cacti can also be installed using yum

#eg.
yum install cacti

1> Download RPM cacti.

2> Create the MySQL database:

shell> mysqladmin --user=root -p create cacti

3>Import the default cacti database:

shell> mysql -u root -p cacti < /var/www/html/cacti/cacti.sql

4> mysql -u root -p

GRANT ALL ON cacti.* TO cactiuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '<pwd>';

flush privileges;
exit

5> cp -a /var/www/html/cacti/include/config.php
/var/www/html/cacti/include/config.php.orig

6> Edit include/config.php and specify the MySQL user, password and database for
your Cacti configuration.

$database_default = "cacti";
$database_hostname = "localhost";
$database_username = "cactiuser";
$database_password = "somepasswd";
7> Set the appropriate permissions on cacti's directories for graph/log
generation. You should execute these commands from inside cacti's directory to
change the permissions.

shell> chown -R cactiuser rra/ log/

8> Add a line to your /etc/crontab file similar to:

*/5 * * * * cacti php /var/www/html/cacti/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1

10> Point your web browser to:

http://your-server/cacti/

11> Patching of cacti.This is not necessary if you have installed cacti uing yum

Be sure that you are in your Cacti directory when you execute these commands.

wget
http://www.cacti.net/downloads/patches/0.8.6h/fix_search_session_clear_issue.patch
wget
http://www.cacti.net/downloads/patches/0.8.6h/fix_sql_syntax_related_to_default_rr
a_id.patch
wget
http://www.cacti.net/downloads/patches/0.8.6h/nth_percentile_empty_return_set_issu
e.patch
wget http://www.cacti.net/downloads/patches/0.8.6h/mysql_5x_strict.patch
wget
http://www.cacti.net/downloads/patches/0.8.6h/database_autoincrement_corruption.pa
tch
patch -p1 -N < fix_search_session_clear_issue.patch
patch -p1 -N < fix_sql_syntax_related_to_default_rra_id.patch
patch -p1 -N < nth_percentile_empty_return_set_issue.patch
patch -p1 -N < mysql_5x_strict.patch
patch -p1 -N < database_autoincrement_corruption.patch