# Plugin Management

### Installing Plugins

Installing plugins on cacti is a simple procedure

Step 1 download the plugin to cactidir/cacti/plugins

    git clone https://github.com/Cacti/plugin_thold.git

    mv plugin_thold /var/www/html/cacti/plugins

Now assign the proper permissions to the folder

    chown -R www-data:www-data plugin_thold

Below you will now see the THOLD plugin avaliable to install in this case we are installing thold

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After installing the plugin by clicking on the grey gear you will now how to enable it this can be done via clicking on the green check mark

### Unistall a plugin

To uninstall a plugin go into the plugins page console >> configuration >> plugins Click on the plugin to disable the plugin

Click on the red dot beside the plugin to uninstall the plugin a dialouge box will appear now click uninstall.

This will uninstall the plugin from cacti but will NOT remove the files from the server to do that you must manually remove the plugin until you remove the files the plugin will show to be avaliable to be installed.

### Dependecies in plugins

Some dependencies such as THOLD aka Thresholds rely on another plugin in this case thold reliese on the monitor plugin which is missing in this case you will see the below messege box in order to continue you must install the required plugin.

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