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Step 1: Installing Samba All the necessary RPM should be present in the installation media (CD/DVD). If needed, the online repository of repoforge.org is very good too. [root@firefly ~]# yum install samba   Step 2: Preparing the Configuration Files Now that Samba is installed, it is time to prepare the configuration file. I've said it before and I'll say it again, it's always a good idea to back up the .conf file before modifying. [root@firefly ~]# cd /etc/samba/ [root@firefly samba]# cp smb.conf smb.conf.bak [root@firefly samba]# vim smb.conf   Here are the modifications workgroup = SCRUB ## The actual name of the domain ## hosts allow = 127. 192.168.1. ## The IP range to be allowed. Alternatively, the “interfaces” parameter may be used. ## security = user passdb backend = tdbsam domain master = yes domain logons = yes logon path = ## Because netlogons create more problems than benefit, we have used an empty logon path to force user accounts t...

A newer version of this article is available in my blog:  http://amar-linux.blogspot.com/2017/03/how-to-analyze-squid-logs-with-sarg-log.html Usually, it's pretty hard to analyze information from the squid log file. For example, I don't know how to analyze date or number of hits from /var/log/squid/access.log. If someone needs to analyze which websites are being accessed from the network, SARG may be a very good tool. SARG, or Squid Analysis Report Generator (http://sarg.sourceforge.net) analyzes the log, and generates a web based table where one can easily analyze proxy traffic. Although SARG can be installed using YUM, I have faced problems with CentOS 6. So, I went for tarball installation instead. And believe, it's really easy unlike many tarball installtions. So, let's start: [root@busy-bee2 ~]# yum install gcc make wget httpd [root@busy-bee2 ~]# wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/sarg/files/sarg/sarg-2.3.1/sarg-2.3.1.tar.gz/download [root@busy-bee2...

Timezone Problem If no graph is being generated and the cacti log keeps telling about timezone problem then this can be done: ERROR SAMPLE PHP Warning:  strtotime(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Asia/Dacca' for 'BDT/6.0/no DST' instead in /var/www/cacti/include/global_arrays.php on line 671  My timezone is Asia/Dhaka, so I modifed php.ini accordingly. [root@centu ~]# vim /etc/php.ini date.timezone = Asia/Dhaka [root@centu ~]# service httpd restart  Of course, PHP documentation should be consulted prior to editing php.ini. This may help: http://bd.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php Graphs Not Being Generated The poller needs to run at least once for the RRD (typically stored in /var/www...

After a fresh installation, the default username is ' admin' & password is 'admin' . After the first successful login, the user is forced to change it. Now, we will see how to add devices in Cacti for monitoring Adding a device for traffic analysis Console > Devices Add Filling up the device parameters Associated Data Queries > SNMP - Interface Statistics Create Graph Select interfaces to monitor Hope this helps.

Step 1: Installing RPM I would recommend using the repository of repoforge.org. It has a large collection and I can get all the necessary RPMs there. [root@centu ~]# yum install freetype-devel libpng-devel libart_lgpl-devel php-gd mysql-server mysql php-mysql php-pear php-common php-gd php-devel php php-mbstring php-cli php-snmp php-pear-Net-SMTP php-mysql httpd net-snmp-utils php-snmp net-snmp-libs crontabs cacti   Step 2: Preparing SNMP It is always a best practice to backup any configuration file before editing. To get SNMP ready to roll, we need to edit the following configuration file: [root@centu snmp]# vim /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf  com2sec myUser 192.168.10.0/24 myCommunity group myGroup v1 myUser group myGroup v2c myUser view all included .1 access myGroup "" any noauth exact all all none  My Server IP is 192.168.10.13, and I have configured SNMP to match my requirements. Needless to say, your configura...