# How do I turn on Cacti **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [September 6, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-turn-on-cacti/35485 "2010-09-06T15:04:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Tremblay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Daniel\_Tremblay](https://community.wowza.com/u/Daniel_Tremblay)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 4:10pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-turn-on-cacti/35485/21 "2010-10-25T16:10:47Z")
> I’m not sure how to enable cacti or set password in a startup package. > > If you are using the Wowza [Dynamic Load Balancer](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-get-dynamic-load-balancing-addon) you can get an overview of edge usage from the load balancer HTTProvider: > > ```auto > http://[wowza-loadbalancer-address]:1935/loadbalancer?serverInfoXML > > ``` > > See the package readme for instructions for enabling this HTTProvider. > > Richard Yes it is a great data source… even better with this php script to clarify the data: > [@Display current listeners using PHP](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/34372): > > Hi, Here is a simple PHP code to retrieve number of listeners on your stream or connected user. [PHP] \loadXML($xml\_data); $wms = $doc-\>getElementsByTagName('WowzaMediaServer'); $currentlistener = $wms-\>item(0)-\>getElementsByTagName("ConnectionsCurrent")-\>item(0)-\>nodeValue; $listenerhits = $wms-\>item(0)-\>getElementsByTagName("ConnectionsTotal")-\>item(0)-\>nodeValue; echo "Curr… I push our drupal programmer here to get me some code to: extract the ip’s from serverInfoXML to build an automatic web page to get the addresses of the origins and all edges, and for each servers bring a JW player window play the streams… all of this to have a quick check on any servers connections count status and performances… ---
**Author:** ![Eric\_Larson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@Eric\_Larson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Eric_Larson)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-turn-on-cacti/35485/22 "2010-09-30T04:14:33Z")
I also am only seeing network and system graphs, no Wowza graphs. Any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![Nikola\_Denic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/919ad9/32.png) [@Nikola\_Denic](https://community.wowza.com/u/Nikola_Denic)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 7:52am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-turn-on-cacti/35485/23 "2010-10-25T07:52:43Z")
And does anybody know how can I enable caciti and change its password with startup package ? ---
**Author:** ![Preston\_McFarland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b5ac83/32.png) [@Preston\_McFarland](https://community.wowza.com/u/Preston_McFarland)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-turn-on-cacti/35485/24 "2010-09-06T15:16:27Z")
IF there are, I’m not seeing them. It just refers you to [cacti.net](http://cacti.net) which talks about a fresh install… I want to use the one that’s already set up. "For detailed information about Cacti you can read more at: [http://www.cacti.net/](http://www.cacti.net/) Once activated on the Wowza Server it will begin to monitor and track information," ---
**Author:** ![Preston\_McFarland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b5ac83/32.png) [@Preston\_McFarland](https://community.wowza.com/u/Preston_McFarland)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-turn-on-cacti/35485/25 "2010-09-06T15:34:50Z")
I assume you mean page 24. I’m also assuming you’re referring to the part where explains how to connect “http://[public-domain-name]:8080/cacti” However, this just leads to a connection timed out so I’m assuming that this because cacti is not turned on. Am I missing something? ---
**Author:** ![Preston\_McFarland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b5ac83/32.png) [@Preston\_McFarland](https://community.wowza.com/u/Preston_McFarland)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-turn-on-cacti/35485/26 "2010-09-06T15:50:14Z")
That was it! I needed to open port 8080. Thanks for the help! ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Youngs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Jeff\_Youngs](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jeff_Youngs)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-turn-on-cacti/35485/27 "2010-09-29T14:16:07Z")
I am having this problem also with ami-26c62d4f Can someone please tell me how to get the current connection count? I believe this used to work by browsing to port 1935, but now I just get this: Wowza Media Server 2 for Amazon EC2 2.1.2 build24878 ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Youngs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Jeff\_Youngs](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jeff_Youngs)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-turn-on-cacti/35485/28 "2010-09-29T15:24:19Z")
Got it thanks, would still be nice if we could fix the reporting…any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Youngs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Jeff\_Youngs](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jeff_Youngs)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-turn-on-cacti/35485/29 "2010-09-29T16:46:01Z")
> I can get it working for sys stats but no wowza infos… seems to be jmx communication buggy! > > if i try 2.1.1 ami it’s so easy to get it all working 🙂 > > but 2.1.2 in no fun!:mad: > > i failed on 6 retry from small to large instances… As described here I get the Network and System graphs, but nothing for Wowza. It has been enabled for about 24 hours now and had over 100 sustained connections (according to /connectioninfo). Can I PM you the login info? ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Youngs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Jeff\_Youngs](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jeff_Youngs)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 8:30am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-turn-on-cacti/35485/30 "2010-09-30T08:30:15Z")
> odd… > > if i force my instance to start on us-east-1c … bingo!🙂 > > instant reporting (few sec) of my streaming…😃 > > may be a zone problem?!😕 > > AMI ID: ami-26c62d4f > > did someone changed the ami?.. or my brain? it looks ok now after starting 5 instances on Zone a c d… cant get zone b to start! > > so… i am happy for now! Do you know which instance had the problem initially? Could that have been zone B and forcing it out of B fixes that? Or does it need to be not-zone-B and forced into a zone. (clear?) My instance is in Zone A, but if I remember EC2 correctly, my zones can be different than your zones (hence why they are just given generic letters). ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Youngs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Jeff\_Youngs](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jeff_Youngs)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-turn-on-cacti/35485/31 "2010-10-11T12:53:12Z")
Yup this worked for me as well (and I am using an EIP). Thanks a bunch. ---
**Author:** ![Anatoly\_Mikhailov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Anatoly\_Mikhailov](https://community.wowza.com/u/Anatoly_Mikhailov)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-turn-on-cacti/35485/32 "2011-11-22T14:04:59Z")
> Might take a little while for data to start showing, or set on wrong scale. Assigning ElasticIP after does break Cacti, at least temporarily. > > Richard I can find nothing about Cacti in User Guide. any ideas? Anatoly ---
**Author:** ![Savvas\_Panagiotidis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Savvas\_Panagiotidis](https://community.wowza.com/u/Savvas_Panagiotidis)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 11:16am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-turn-on-cacti/35485/33 "2011-06-23T11:16:58Z")
We use wowza EC2 and cacti is enabled and available as a private ami on our s3. The problem is that on the control panel of cacti, on Default Tree -\> Wowza Media Server, on all the graphs we get “nan” on Current, Average and Maximum and the graphs are empty. We restarted wowza after assigning elastic ip but the problem persists… Why? [Previous page](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-turn-on-cacti/35485.md?page=1)