Time for action - installing Spine

Here we will take a deep pe into installing and configuring the Spine poller:

1. As with the Cacti main files, go to http://www.cacti.net and click on Spine under the Download section. Make a note of the latest stable version.
2. If not already done, create the CACTIVERSION variable and set it to the current Cacti version:

    export CACTIVERSION=1.1.28
  

1. Change directories to /tmp/ and issue the following command:

    cd /tmp
    wget https://www.cacti.net/downloads/spine/cacti-spine-$CACTIVERSION.tar.gz
  

1. Extract the file:

    tar -xzvf cacti-spine-$CACTIVERSION.tar.gz
  

1. Change to the newly created directory:

    cd cacti-spine-$CACTIVERSION
  

1. Prepare the directory for compilation. Please note that this step may not work on other distributions, and additional steps may be needed:

    ./bootstrap
  

1. Configure the compiling environment:

    ./configure  
  

1. Compile Spine:

    make
  

1. Once the make command finishes, install Spine:

    make install
  

1. Now change the owner of the spine binary to root and set the sticky bit so you can use ICMP pings:

    chown root:root /usr/local/spine/bin/spine
    chmod +s /usr/local/spine/bin/spine
  

1. You now have Spine installed, but it needs to be configured. Therefore, copy the sample configuration file to a location where Spine will find it:

    cp /usr/local/spine/etc/spine.conf.dist /etc/spine.conf
  

1. Edit the file in vi:

    vi /etc/spine.conf
  

1. Change the database configuration to match the settings from earlier:

1. Create a symbolic link in /sbin to the spine binary:

    ln -s /usr/local/spine/bin/spine /sbin/spine