What is Cacti ?

Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool, it stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. The frontend is completely PHP driven. Along with being able to maintain Graphs, Data Sources, and Round Robin Archives in a database, cacti handles the data gathering. There is also SNMP support for those used to creating traffic graphs with MRTG.

Preparing Anything

I assume you already have apache + php + mysql running in OpenSUSE11.

What is Apache / HTTPD ?
Apache is a freely available Web server that is distributed under an open source license. It is the most widely-installed Web server.

What is PHP ?
PHP is a scripting language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. It has evolved to include a command line interface capability and can be used in standalone graphical applications.

What is MySQL ?

All About Groundwork Monitor Community Edition 5.3

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a widely used protocol for monitoring the health and welfare of network equipment (eg. routers), computer equipment and even devices like UPSs. Net-SNMP is a suite of applications used to implement SNMP v1, SNMP v2c and SNMP v3 using both IPv4 and IPv6.

Installing SNMP services in FreeBSD

Login into your server with SSH
[code]$cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp
$make install clean[/code]

Wait until finish.

Configure snmpd.conf