Bad security? Yes, but this is just my Proof of Concept test.ģ4. For my test, I just entered admin in twice to leave it unchanged. Once you enter that you will be forced to change your password.
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The default username and password is admin/admin. You will now be presented with a Cacti login screen. When the server comes back up, verify the IP address.ģ1. Restart the server now by click on the reboot button at the top of the web page.ģ0. If you want, you can set a static IP and other config settings from this page, but for the purposes of this example we will leave everything else allow.Ģ9. Click save and you should get a message stating that the changes will take affect the next time you restart.Ģ8. Change the date/time/zone to match your area.Ģ7. Click on Configuration at the top and select time keeping. Open a browser and go to that address.Ģ5. You will see a message stating VA Management Console can be access at :8000Ģ4. As the system is shutting down, you may get a warning about not being able to find vmware-tools… So what…Ģ3. Remove the S19vmware-tools startup/shutdown scriptĢ1. Enter it to get in to maintenance mode.ġ9. Select the “recovery mode” option from the menu.ġ5. Start the Appliance but push ESC right away.
There is probably a cleaner way to do this, but a quick and dirty way to overcome this issue is…ġ3.
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Plus we don’t need or want vmware tools… We are using Virtual Box. For whatever reason, VM-ware tools is installed and messes up the /etc/fstab file. I selected the Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop NIC and Selected Bridged Adapter.ġ2. Click Network, Enable the Network Adapter. Click Display, change Video Memory from 4 to 7.ġ0. The VA-Cacti virtual machine should show up in your list. Click on Choose and navigate to the OVF File. I let it, and then once it was saved on my hard drive I changed the extension from xml to ovf.ĥ. Note… when I downloaded the VA-Cacti.ovf file it wanted to save it with an xml extension. Well Virtual Box can import the OVF format. I found had a pre-built Cacti Virtual Appliance for VMware in OVF format (Note: I just noticed on that this is not a valid site anymore - so the rest of this post is invalid unless you can find the VA-Cacti.ovf file). It didn’t seem too hard to set this up from scratch, but I really did not want to spend a lot of time messing around with it. This time I wanted something that was move feature packed and robust. I have used mrtg and rddtool before, and it has served my needs in the past. I wanted a fast and easy solution to do some monitoring on my network.