Installation

Installation

This section covers some general installation instructions for plugins.

Requirements

Requires rsyslog or syslog-ng to be installed and running.

Download latest version from github, unzip it and copy the resulting directory into <cacti_path>/plugins/

To install the syslog plugin, simply copy the plugin_sylog directory to Cacti's plugins directory and rename it to simply 'syslog'. Once you have done this, go to Cacti's Plugin Management page, and Install and Enable the plugin. Once this is complete, you can grant users permission to view syslog messages, as well as create Alert, Removal and Report Rules.

Note: You must rename config.php.dist in the syslog plugin directory to config.php and make changes there for the location of the database, user, password, and host. This is especially important if you are using a remote logging database server.

If you are upgrading to 2.0 from a prior install, you must first uninstall syslog and ensure both the syslog, syslog_removal, and syslog_incoming tables are removed, and recreated at install time.