# How do I turn on Cacti

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-turn-on-cacti/35485
**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:** 1
**Showing post:** 21

<div class="post-metadata">

### 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")

</div>

> 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] \<?php $xml\_data=file\_get\_contents("http://YOURSERVERIP:8086/connectioncounts"); $doc = new DOMDocument(); $doc-\>loadXML($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…

---

_[View the full topic](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-do-i-turn-on-cacti/35485)._