I was trying to setup cacti on my ubuntu desktop to gather metrics from few new database servers we were planning to replace. Installed cacti using the following command
apt-get install cacti
Then the next step was to download and the install the cacti mysql templates from http://code.google.com/p/mysql-cacti-templates/. Thanks to Baron, was able to get this up and running fast using the templates. But had one problem though, while importing the mysql template “cacti_host_template_x_mysql_server_ht_0.8.6i-sver1.1.7.xml” cacti bombed with the below error
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 41 bytes) in /usr/share/cacti/site/lib/xml.php on line 32
The fix was to edit “/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini” change the parameter “memory_limit” from 16M to 32M and …
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