Recommended Install Path: C:\Spine\
Information: Spine is a poller for Cacti that primarily strives to be as fast as possible. For this reason it is written in native C, makes use of POSIX threads, and is linked directly against the net-snmp library for minimal SNMP polling overhead. Spine is a replacement for the default cmd.php poller so you must decide if using Spine makes sense for your installation. It is highly recommended that users start out with the default cmd.php poller until their installation is fully functional! Cactid was renamed to Spine for the 0.8.7 release.
Cactid is for Cacti 0.8.6 and below.
Spine is for Cacti 0.8.7 and above.
Extract the spine zip file to C:\Spine\
Install a base install of Cygwin and delete all cygwin files from the RRDTool and Spine folders. Move RRDTool and Spine into the same folder, so they share the Cygwin dlls. Your mileage may vary due to each binary being compiled against a different Cygwin version.