how-to install spine on centOS-5/RHEL-5

Quick and dirty how-to how to install the spine poller for cacti on centos or rhel 5. This is useful if you have a ton of sources being polled.

• yum install net-snmp-devel mysql mysql-devel openssl-devel ksh automake autoconf libtool gcc make -y
  
• cd
  
• wget http://www.cacti.net/downloads/spine/cacti-spine-0.8.7c.tar.gz
  
• tar -xvzf cacti-spine-0.8.7c.tar.gz
  
• cd cacti-spine-0.8.7c
  
• chmod 744 ./configure
  
• autoconf
  
• autoheader
  
• automake
  
• ./configure
  
• make
  
• make install
  
• cp /usr/local/spine/etc/spine.conf.dist /etc/spine.conf
  
• edit '/etc/spine.conf' to match cacti's config.phpWithin the cacti GUI add the spine binary path in Settings > Paths '/usr/local/spine/bin/spine' and then under the Poller tab change the type from cmd.php to Spine.

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