Time for action - starting the Windows setup

Let's have a closer look at installing Cacti on a Windows system:

1. Download the Windows installer to the system on which you want to install Cacti. To retrieve the latest version, go to http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=14946 and click the download link at the end of the first post. Save the installer to your desktop.

1. Double-click on the setup file. The installer will check what has already been installed and give you a report. Click Next > after you have read the information:

1. The next screen shows the GPL license. Accept it and click Next >:

1. Then you must select a web server. If you have IIS installed you can select it here, otherwise Apache will be installed:

1. In the next step you can choose the components to install. Select all available options. The Plugins section is empty as most plugins have been added to Cacti 1.x. Now click Next >:

1. Keep the defaults for the installation locations and click Next >:

1. The final step provides an overview of the paths to be created. Click Install to start the installation process:

1. Please note the default Cacti admin and MySQL root passwords.
2. Open the Post-Install instructions and follow the tasks.