

Rename the new Cacti directory to match the old one.Download the latest Cacti tarball (0.8.7e as of this writing):.The root for Cacti in CactiEZ is /var/www/html so I executed all the following commands from the /var/www directory: Backup the existing Cacti directory (again, since I have a new installation I wasn't too worried about this).This user must have permission to read from Cacti's database or you will end up with an empty backup. Mysqldump -l -add-drop-table cacti > mysql.cacti Note: You will probably have to specify the -u and -p flags for the MySQL username and password. Backup the existing Cacti database (I wasn't too worried about this as I upgraded a new installation):.So, after mucking through the upgrade I thought I'd put down my notes. Jimmy Conner who put together CactiEZ said to follow the directions for upgrading Cacti in the Cacti manual, but they weren't exactly easy to follow.

However I was not able to locate any good directions. After installing CactiEZ v0.6 (as a VM on Windows 2008 Hyper-V) which includes Cacti 0.8.7c I wanted to upgrade to the latest version of Cacti (0.8.7e as of this post).
