How to setup Email Notification in CACTI 

In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to configure Cacti to send e-mails when an alert trigger is activated.

In our example, we are going to use Google Gmail as SMTP server.

• Ubuntu 20.04
• Cacti 1.2.20

What is Cacti?

Cacti is an open-source, web-based network monitoring and graphing tool designed as a front-end application for the open-source, industry-standard data logging tool RRDtool. 

To configure e-mail as the delivery channel for messages, you need to configure Notification Setup for cacti.

Configure E-mail Relay

To Configure E-mail relay, you need following things:

1.    A Gmail Account

2.    Gmail App Password

3.    Postfix setup

§  Follow Below guide to Configure “Gmail App Password”

https://www.devopszones.com/2020/03/how-to-create-use-app-passwords-in-gmail.html

§   Follow Below guide to Configure “SSMTP”

           https://www.devopszones.com/2022/07/how-to-send-mail-through-gmail-on-ubuntu.html

After Configuring App Password and SSMTP, we now need to configure e-mail Notification is cacti.

On the Cacti dashboard screen, access the Configuration menu and select the Settings option.

On the Settings screen, you need to access the Mail/Reporting/DNS tab.

 

On the Emailing Options, perform the following configuration and click on the Save button.

• Notify Primary Admin of Issues - Yes
• Test Email - An email address to test if the Cacti email feature is working.
• Mail Services - SMTP
• Ping Mail Server - No
• From Email Address - Your Gmail address
• From Name - A name or a description.
• Word Wrap - 120

cacti-emailing-options

On the SMTP Options area, perform the following configuration and click on the Save button.

• SMTP Hostname - smtp.gmail.com
• SMTP Port - 587
• SMTP Username - The username of the e-mail account that will send Cacti notifications.
• SMTP Password - The password of the e-mail account that will send Cacti notifications.
• SMTP Security - TLS
• SMTP Timeout - 10

cacti-SMTP-options

On the Emailing Options, click on the Send a Test email option.

Cacti will now try to send a test message.

cacti_message-settings

Here is an example of the message sent by Cacti.

cacti-Test-Message