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I would like to use Spine instead of default Cacti's poller. At first, I'm thinking about to use Dag repository. It should work easily if I don't have DirectAdmin installed. However, I do have DirectAdmin installed and that caused dependencies problem when I tried to yum install it.

So, I need to compile Spine by myself. I checked at Cacti website and found "Compiling Spine for Redhat/Fedora Linux" The steps seem to be easy but it's not. I got and error :

It's been a while that I do nothing with Cacti. So, I decided to upgrade Cacti from version 0.8.7b ( http://bxtra.net/Articles/2008-09-18/Steps-how-install-Cacti-CentOS-52-D... ) to version 0.8.7d.

1. Get Cacti version 0.8.7d

2. Change directory of Cacti 0.8.7b (Old) to something Else. Then, extract Cacti 0.8.7d and change directory name to the one we use.

shell> mv cacti cacti_old_version
shell> tar xzvf cacti-0.8.7d.tar.gz

First of all, I'm not an Linux/DirectAdmin expert. I just played around with them and found the way to do it. I tried to install Cacti on my server but I couldn't find a complete instruction to do it. So, I just gathered all information I found into one place so that it is easier for many others. I hope it can help someone that needs the same thing that I did.

The software I use:

- CentOS 5.2 - 64-bit
- DirectAdmin 1.323 - Custombuild 1.1.13
     - PHP 5 - CGI
     - Apache 2.2
     - MySQL 5
- Cacti 0.8.7b

Package Required by Cacti :

* 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

Apache, PHP and MySQL are already installed by DirectAdmin. However, there are 2 required packages which are net-smtp and RRDTool that I need to install.