Time for action – installing the Autom8 plugin

1. Logon to your Cacti installation as the root user.

2. Change to the plugins directory of your Cacti installation:

   cd /var/www/html/cacti/plugins
   

3. Download the Autom8 plugin. You can find the download link at http://docs.cacti.net/plugin:autom8. Unfortunately v0.33 is not compatible with Cacti 0.8.7g so we have to use a beta version available from the Autom8 thread in the Cacti forums (http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=36493):

   wget -O autom8-v0.35b6.tgz  http://forums.cacti.net/download/file.php?id=21363
   

4. Extract the plugin:

   tar -xzvf autom8-v0.35b6.tgz
   

5. Do not yet install and enable the plugin.

What just happened?

You just finished the first part of the Autom8 installation. As the Autom8 plugin also needs some additional functionality for some of the core Cacti files, you will now need to follow the next step of patching these core Cacti files.

Patching the Cacti files

Now that you have extracted the plugin, you can continue with adding...