I just used Nick Mae's well written HOWTO on setting up Cacti on CentOS 4.xto setup Cacti on my CentOS 5.1 system : http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Cacti_on_CentOS_4.x I was hoping to add a page or section for CentOS 5.x with the modifications I'm including below. My wiki.centos.org username is "GeneWood" Changes : # Make sure snmpd accepts 'public' as public community from localhost, and restart snmpd. You can use the command 'snmpconf -g basic_setup' to generate an snmpd.conf file. # Make sure snmpd accepts 'public' as public community from localhost, and restart snmpd. You can use the command 'snmpconf -g basic_setup' to generate an snmpd.conf file. The default snmpd installation does not grant full read permissions to the "public" community string. Setup a snmp user for cacti adding the following lines to /etc/snmp.conf : com2sec cactiUser default cacti group cactiGroup v1 cactiUser group cactiGroup v2c cactiUser view cactiROView included .1 access cactiGroup "" any noauth exact cactiROView none none # Give permissions to the cacti user (replace 'user' with the value you chose at 9). mysql>GRANT SELECT , INSERT , UPDATE , DELETE , CREATE , DROP , INDEX , LOCK TABLE , ALTER ON cacti . * TO 'user'@'localhost'; # Give permissions to the cacti user (replace 'user' with the value you chose at 9). mysql>GRANT SELECT , INSERT , UPDATE , DELETE , CREATE , DROP , INDEX , LOCK TABLES , ALTER ON cacti.* TO 'user'@'localhost'; # Some checks need SNMP, so we have to set the community to be used: Console tab-> Create Devices: -> Localhost -> set SNMP community: public, save. # Some checks need SNMP, so we have to set the community to be used: Console tab-> Create Devices: -> Localhost -> set SNMP Version : Version 2 Console tab-> Create Devices: -> Localhost -> set SNMP community: public, save. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20080127/3c88b478/attachment-0003.html>