The following are some tips on how to use your Cacti AMI powered by Symetricore on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) marketplace.

SSH login user

Username: ubuntu

No password is used. You should connect to your instance using the public IP address and your public key.

ssh -i mykey.pem ubuntu@public-ip

Cacti web admin

Access to Cacti is via a web browser at

http://public-ip

Cacti administrator account.

username: admin 
password: aws-instance-id

The instance id is found in the AWS console under in the “Description” tab. It is formatted like this:

i-02cced9059be1aacd

Make sure you include the i- in the when you copy/paste.

More information is located here on how to locate your instance-id.

Support

Good documentation on Cacti can be found here.

Cacti has good forums for support here.

LICENSE

Cacti and “Cacti powered by Symetricore” is free software licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License. Because Cacti is licensed free of charge, there is no warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Read the full text of the GNU GPL version 2 for details.

More information at http://www.cacti.net