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Quoting MHd <hud...@gm...>:

> Hi All,
> I'm monitoring GigabitEthernet sub-interface on Cisco router, but 
> when i turn debug mode on, i can't get RRA:LAST value ... and i not 
> see anything in graph too ....
>
> Anyone can help me with this problem ?
>
> Thanks.
> ~MHd~
>
>
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Hi All,
I'm monitoring GigabitEthernet sub-interface on Cisco router, but when i =
turn debug mode on, i can't get RRA:LAST value ... and i not see =
anything in graph too ....

Anyone can help me with this problem ?

Thanks.
~MHd~

I have found the forums to be a much better place to post your 
questions.  This
mailing list doesn't get much traffic at all.  Link below.

He encontrado los foros para ser un lugar mucho mejor para fijar sus 
preguntas.
Esta lista que env=C3=ADa no consigue mucho tr=C3=A1fico en todos. Acoplami=

ento abajo.

http://forums.cacti.net/

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Quoting dba...@ke...:

>
> Hi:
>
>       After download and install rpms from cacti site i have a stable cac=

ti
> server. I wanna backup every night the cacti server to DAT. As far has i
> know this can be done in several ways. Shutting down
> mysql-server/http-server and backing up to tape or for example, make a
> mysql instance dump, and save the export file as part of the filesystem
> backup.
>
>       Exists any type of instruction to say to cacti cmd.php process not =

to
> be executed for a predefined time or untils i say it 'start again'. This
> must be executed externally 'cause the idea is to launch the backup every
> night from root crontab.
>
> Any advice/tip will be appreciated :)
>
> Regards and TIAs
>
> David Ballester Montolio
> GNU/Linux user #206389
> GNU/Linux - Unices Sysadmin
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Hi:

      After download and install rpms from cacti site i have a stable cacti
server. I wanna backup every night the cacti server to DAT. As far has i
know this can be done in several ways. Shutting down
mysql-server/http-server and backing up to tape or for example, make a
mysql instance dump, and save the export file as part of the filesystem
backup.

      Exists any type of instruction to say to cacti cmd.php process not to
be executed for a predefined time or untils i say it 'start again'. This
must be executed externally 'cause the idea is to launch the backup every
night from root crontab.

Any advice/tip will be appreciated :)

Regards and TIAs

David Ballester Montolio
GNU/Linux user #206389
GNU/Linux - Unices Sysadmin
Oracle DBA
SAP-BC
Kern Pharma - Grupo Indukern
www.kernpharma.com

I've found no help here on this mailing list.  I've found a tremendous 
amount of
help on the forums:

     http://forums.cacti.net/

Good luck! :)

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Quoting Andrew Grimberg <And...@Se...>:

> I just recently installed v0.8.6c on a SLES9 server.  My problem is 
> that I know I'm going to need to use cactid just from the large 
> number of things that I'll be graphing.  However, everytime I try and 
> run cactid I get the following:
>
> *[cut]--
> ERROR: Could not open config file
> CACTID: Using cactid config file [/etc/cactid.conf]
> WARNING: Unrecongized directive: LogFile=/var/log/cacti/cactid.log in 
> /etc/cactid.conf
> CACTID: Non Window envrionment, running as root, ICMP Ping available
> CACTID: Version 0.8.7 starting
> /etc/cactid.conf: line 29: Warning: Unknown token: DB_Host.
> /etc/cactid.conf: line 30: Warning: Unknown token: DB_Database.
> /etc/cactid.conf: line 31: Warning: Unknown token: DB_User.
> /etc/cactid.conf: line 32: Warning: Unknown token: DB_Pass.
> /etc/cactid.conf: line 33: Warning: Unknown token: LogFile.
> Segmentation fault
> *[/cut]--
>
> the relevent section of my /etc/cactid.conf
> *[cut]--
> DB_Host             localhost
> DB_Database     cacti
> DB_User             cactiuser
> DB_Pass             <removed_to_protect_the_innocent>
> LogFile               /var/log/cacti/cactid.log
> *[/cut]--
>
> Any idea why I'm getting the unknown token warnings and then a segfault?
>
> I only made a modifcation to the .spec file to pass it's dependency 
> check (php became php4 and wwwserver became apache2).  Other than 
> that, it's a stock compile of the RPM.
>
> Thanks,
> -Andy-
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I just recently installed v0.8.6c on a SLES9 server.  My problem is that I =
know I'm going to need to use cactid just from the large number of things =
that I'll be graphing.  However, everytime I try and run cactid I get the =
following:

*[cut]--
ERROR: Could not open config file
CACTID: Using cactid config file [/etc/cactid.conf]
WARNING: Unrecongized directive: LogFile=3D/var/log/cacti/cactid.log in =
/etc/cactid.conf
CACTID: Non Window envrionment, running as root, ICMP Ping available
CACTID: Version 0.8.7 starting
/etc/cactid.conf: line 29: Warning: Unknown token: DB_Host.
/etc/cactid.conf: line 30: Warning: Unknown token: DB_Database.
/etc/cactid.conf: line 31: Warning: Unknown token: DB_User.
/etc/cactid.conf: line 32: Warning: Unknown token: DB_Pass.
/etc/cactid.conf: line 33: Warning: Unknown token: LogFile.
Segmentation fault
*[/cut]--

the relevent section of my /etc/cactid.conf
*[cut]--
DB_Host             localhost
DB_Database     cacti
DB_User             cactiuser
DB_Pass             <removed_to_protect_the_innocent>
LogFile               /var/log/cacti/cactid.log
*[/cut]--

Any idea why I'm getting the unknown token warnings and then a segfault?

I only made a modifcation to the .spec file to pass it's dependency check =
(php became php4 and wwwserver became apache2).  Other than that, it's a =
stock compile of the RPM.

Thanks,
-Andy-

I have a number of data points collected from about 10 different hosts, I would
like to combine these into a single graph inside of Cacti.

How would I do this?

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I've add a bunch of devices to my system, and slowly I'm adding more and more
datapoints for gathering.  I've found that new devices follow the Host Template
I've made, but all the the existing devices, but now I want to add a Graph
(which will automagically create the Data Source) for all the devices.

Is there no way to mass add the Graph Templates and Data Sources to a bunch of
Devices?  The manual adding of the Graph to all the Devices is sooooo time
consuming.

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What IOS ?

 

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From: cac...@li...
[mailto:cac...@li...] On Behalf Of Karma Chu
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 5:36 PM
To: cac...@li...
Subject: [cacti-user] Cisco Router 7250

 

Does anyone knows the OID for cisco router 7250 power supply?

 

Thanks,

Daniel

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Karma Chu wrote:
> Does anyone knows the OID for cisco router 7250 power supply?
>  
> Thanks,
> Daniel
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dan wrote:

> Hamed Majnoonian wrote:
>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I found a weird problem on my BSD box which is 4.11. I started to 
>> install
>> the Cacti with all its default packages it needs such as Mysql4.0. 
>> But the
>> problem is the Mysql is not working since I can't find the 
>> safe_mysqld file
>> to run the Sql daemon. I have tried and test with Mysql 3 but it has the
>> safe_mysqld. I tried to carry on with this version of Mysql but another
>> problem came up.
>>
>> I have followed up all the procedures to start the cacti but when and I
>> didn't find any error message at all during the setup procedures and
>> creating a database for Cacti. But when I point my browser to
>> http://mysite/cacti nothing is there to view.
>>
>> Can any one help me about these two problems?
>>
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>
> This looks like part of the simple setup procedures, not really 
> related to Cacti.  MySQL 4.x has a safe_mysqld file, but perhaps it 
> was stored in a different location than what you're used to.
>
> If you're on a Redhat or Fedora system, the best thing to do would be 
> to look for an init file inside a contrib folder of the source that 
> you had downloaded.  If you are using an RPM, suspect a bunk RPM, as 
> this init file should land itself in /etc/rc.d/init.d, and possibly in 
> /etc/rc.d/rcX.d. 

Right, the standard way to start mysql and apache in recent FreeBSDs is:

Include these flags in /etc/rc.conf:
---------- // -----------------
mysql_enable="YES"
apache_enable="YES"
---------- // -----------------

start the daemons:
---------- // -----------------
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh start
---------- // -----------------

Good luck,

Alex

Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:51:09AM +0100
> 
>>I think it's can became an interesting feature for the future.
>>I need alerting too.
>>I have just in mind to develope something about this in the next future.
> 
> 
> Funny to see top quoters asking an alert on a graphing solution.
> They allready use the unlogical order
> and now mix up cacti with a monitoring tool.
>  
> 
> Cheers
> Geert Stappers
> 
> P.S.
> I do realize this message could be consider flame bait,
> but please see it al plee to reply below the text.

Just because your views may differ from those of others, I really don't 
think it's appropriate to start bashing them.  They could easily say the 
same about you, but they choose not to, because they're probably just 
better people.

This is not a flame list, this is a discussion list.  We discuss stuff 
related to Cacti - not our beliefs of other people based on what they 
might want to see in the future with this product.  There's nothing 
wrong with someone inquiring about a new feature.

I see no problem with making this feature modular so that people like 
you, who might cry themselves to sleep over the situation, don't have to 
install it.  I'm just sorry to say that I don't believe I'm good enough 
with PHP to make a solid contribution.

Sounds simple enough, doesn't it?

Thanks
-dant

Hamed Majnoonian wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I found a weird problem on my BSD box which is 4.11. I started to install
> the Cacti with all its default packages it needs such as Mysql4.0. But the
> problem is the Mysql is not working since I can't find the safe_mysqld file
> to run the Sql daemon. I have tried and test with Mysql 3 but it has the
> safe_mysqld. I tried to carry on with this version of Mysql but another
> problem came up.
> 
> I have followed up all the procedures to start the cacti but when and I
> didn't find any error message at all during the setup procedures and
> creating a database for Cacti. But when I point my browser to
> http://mysite/cacti nothing is there to view. 
> 
> 
> Can any one help me about these two problems?
> 
> 
> Thank you
> 

This looks like part of the simple setup procedures, not really related 
to Cacti.  MySQL 4.x has a safe_mysqld file, but perhaps it was stored 
in a different location than what you're used to.

If you're on a Redhat or Fedora system, the best thing to do would be to 
look for an init file inside a contrib folder of the source that you had 
downloaded.  If you are using an RPM, suspect a bunk RPM, as this init 
file should land itself in /etc/rc.d/init.d, and possibly in 
/etc/rc.d/rcX.d.

Before trying to spend your time on getting Cacti to work, spend time 
getting it's dependencies working, which include MySQL.  That's my 
advice to you.

Good luck
-dant

Hi all!

I found a weird problem on my BSD box which is 4.11. I started to install
the Cacti with all its default packages it needs such as Mysql4.0. But the
problem is the Mysql is not working since I can't find the safe_mysqld file
to run the Sql daemon. I have tried and test with Mysql 3 but it has the
safe_mysqld. I tried to carry on with this version of Mysql but another
problem came up.

I have followed up all the procedures to start the cacti but when and I
didn't find any error message at all during the setup procedures and
creating a database for Cacti. But when I point my browser to
http://mysite/cacti nothing is there to view. 


Can any one help me about these two problems?


Thank you

Martin,

This all kinda depends.  If you want to create graphs from many indexed 
objects (like interfaces for instance), you'll probably want to create a 
new xml file defining the objects you want to be able to graph, the 
index to use, etc.  These files reside in 
<cacti-home-dir>/resource/snmp_queries.  If you nose around a bit, I 
think the format is largely self explanatory, though its also described 
in the docs under "SNMP Query XML Syntax".  Once you've created this, 
you'll need to add it under the "Data Queries" section of the GUI 
(again, fairly self explanatory, but also covered in the docs).
If there are just a few objects and/or objects that are non-indexed, you 
probably will just want to create a "Get SNMP Data" data template.  This 
is not quite so self evident, but covered in the docs (and you can 
always just duplicate one of the exsiting templates and modify what you 
need.

As far as your actual MIB goes, you should be able to simply save it to 
a location that whatever poller you're going to use can find it.

Hope this helps.

-=A=-


Martin Keding wrote:
> I have a number of devices that have their own MIB files. In MRTG I would
> include that MIB file and then pick the appropriate values for the graphs
> etc. I think I am missing some understanding in Cacti because I haven't
> found out how to do the same. Could anyone briefly help me out on what to do
> with MIB's.
> 
> Thanks
> Martin
> 
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I checked the permissions as follows.=20

ls -ld rra
drwxr-xr-x  2 cactiuser users 4096 Jan 25 11:08 rra

ls -al
total 20
drwxr-xr-x   2 cactiuser users 4096 Jan 25 11:08 .
drwxr-xr-x  11 mkeding   users 4096 Dec 19 14:01 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 cactiuser users    0 Dec 19 14:01 .placeholder

The only other strange thing was that in configuration / settings / =
path, my
Cactid poller path is blank. This was after the install. Should it be
/www/htdocs/cacti ?

Martin

Does anyone knows the OID that could be use to monitor the power supply for this router?
 
Thanks,
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dan wrote:

> (...)
> Another thing to think about, however, is that a 5 minute polling time 
> to see if a host is down is, in my oppinion, way too long.  So if this 
> is made, it should be used carefully, and people need to understand 
> that the host will only be checked every 5 minutes.  I'm sure people 
> have (and can) modified this in the past, but most of the people using 
> Cacti wouldn't know how to make this change.

I do agre about the modularity idea. "Use it at your own risk".

There's a different kind of alerting that can be useful: thresholds. If 
a given threshold is reached or surpassed (like 95% CPU, or bandwidth 
use, or high temperature etc.), some kind of warning would be a great help.
With a well analyzed baseline and conservatively configured, even with 
the five min. lag, it would be better to be warned about it than not, IMHO.

Alex

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 12:36 -0600, jeff vier wrote:
> In general, it seems to me that people who wish for one program to also
> do some completely unrelated thing as well come from a Windoze
> background.  We in Unixland (in general) hate "feature creep"/bloat.
> Just do one thing well.  Leave the other functionality designed 

Whoops, got sidetracked by actual work.

I meant to end that paragraph with "Leave the other functionality to
tools designed to do the other stuff."

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 13:07 -0500, csnyder wrote:
> Flamebait aside, this has been proposed as a feature (and a useful one
> at that) by a number of people, but there seems to be some opposition
> to it?

I'll chime in an 'aye' for the opposition.
Nagios does monitoring quite well.  Big Brother also does it fine (I
hear).

This isn't a Microsoft product (or emacs) - it doesn't have to do every
freaking thing in the universe.  It already does what it does quite
well.

In general, it seems to me that people who wish for one program to also
do some completely unrelated thing as well come from a Windoze
background.  We in Unixland (in general) hate "feature creep"/bloat.
Just do one thing well.  Leave the other functionality designed 

> Perhaps rather than force this into Cacti, we need to develop a
> generalised solution for configuring and sending alerts based on
> recent values in a round-robin database. Maybe a nice command-line
> tool that someone else can script a web interface for. Then it could
> be built into Cacti, or used independently.

I have already written a wonderful script to do exactly this in Nagios.

My script happens to pull info from mrtg to do bandwidth percentage
thresholds, but it would be trivial to hack it to instead take arbitrary
values as warning/critical thresholds.

(I hacked some tight MRTG integration into our cacti setup here, so it
is related closely to that.  Still, the method by which values are
pulled from .rrd files is the same no matter what's generating them.)

> I'm up to my eyeballs in other projects at the moment, but if there
> are PHP coders on this list who are interested in this (or have
> already done it!!), please share.

It's attached.  Hack away.  Feel free to reply with any questions, as
well.

csnyder wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:03:37 +0100, Geert Stappers <sta...@st...> wrote:
>  
> 
>>Funny to see top quoters asking an alert on a graphing solution.
> 
> 
> Flamebait aside, this has been proposed as a feature (and a useful one
> at that) by a number of people, but there seems to be some opposition
> to it?
> 
> Perhaps rather than force this into Cacti, we need to develop a
> generalised solution for configuring and sending alerts based on
> recent values in a round-robin database. Maybe a nice command-line
> tool that someone else can script a web interface for. Then it could
> be built into Cacti, or used independently.
> 
> I'm up to my eyeballs in other projects at the moment, but if there
> are PHP coders on this list who are interested in this (or have
> already done it!!), please share.
> 
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I'd agree.  I've seen a lot of people who don't want it, but also, a lot 
of people that do.  And I understand their concerns over with this being 
implemented, Cacti becoming another piece of bloated software, which no 
one wants.

However... I'm sure a modular system could be worked out - so if you 
don't want it, don't install it.

Another thing to think about, however, is that a 5 minute polling time 
to see if a host is down is, in my oppinion, way too long.  So if this 
is made, it should be used carefully, and people need to understand that 
the host will only be checked every 5 minutes.  I'm sure people have 
(and can) modified this in the past, but most of the people using Cacti 
wouldn't know how to make this change.

Just my $0.02, hope it helps!
-dant

I'm using Fedora Core 2 and apt-get.


Seems that some builds of latest rrdtool and php-rrdtool packages prevents
to rrdtool to be used with php.

If your cacti environment seems to not graph any more, and your GNU/Linux
distro is based on apt-get/rpm package manager, check the versions of both
packets rrdtool and php-rrdtool. I had latest version at Jan-2005


"[root@CACTI root]# rpm -qa | grep rrdtool
php-rrdtool-1.0.49-1.1.fc2.fr
rrdtool-1.0.49-1.1.fc2.fr
"

At least this versions may be the problem.


When this occurs, login as cacti owner execute the poller, exactly as
defined in root crontab

"[cactiuser@CACTI cacti]$ /usr/bin/php /var/www/cacti/poller.php
PHP Warning:  Unknown(): Invalid library (maybe not a PHP library)
'rrdtool.so'  in Unknown on line 0
Content-type: text/html
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.10

(...)
"
This happened to me some days before.

Googling and reading a lot i saw some people with same problem in the past

http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/freshrpms-list/2004-July/010146.html

Thinking about it ( trust it, sometimes i think ;) ), i decided to install
previous rrdtool and php-rrdtool from a known repository

"
[root@CACTI root]# wget
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/rrdtool/rrdtool-1.0.48-1.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm
[root@CACTI root]# wget
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/rrdtool/php-rrdtool-1.0.48-1.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm

"

Then installed them

"[root@CACTI root]# rpm -i --replacepkgs --replacefiles --oldpackage
rrdtool-1.0.48-1.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm php-rrdtool-1.0.48-1.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm
warning: rrdtool-1.0.48-1.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key
ID 6b8d79e6
[root@CACTI root]# rpm -qa | grep rrdtool
php-rrdtool-1.0.49-1.1.fc2.fr
php-rrdtool-1.0.48-1.1.fc2.dag
rrdtool-1.0.49-1.1.fc2.fr
rrdtool-1.0.48-1.1.fc2.dag
[root@CACTI root]# rpm -e php-rrdtool-1.0.49-1.1.fc2.fr
[root@CACTI root]# rpm -e rrdtool-1.0.49-1.1.fc2.fr
[root@CACTI root]# rpm -qa | grep rrdtool
php-rrdtool-1.0.48-1.1.fc2.dag
rrdtool-1.0.48-1.1.fc2.dag
"

And then executing again the poller script

"[cactiuser@CACTI cacti]$ /usr/bin/php /var/www/cacti/poller.php
Content-type: text/html
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.10

#!/usr/bin/php -q
"
At least no more error mesages, and rrdtool check in cacti says : OK.

HTH

Note: Sorry for the dirty format



David Ballester Montolio
GNU/Linux user #206389
GNU/Linux - Unices Sysadmin
Oracle DBA
SAP-BC
Kern Pharma - Grupo Indukern
www.kernpharma.com

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:03:37 +0100, Geert Stappers <sta...@st...> wrote:
 
> Funny to see top quoters asking an alert on a graphing solution.

Flamebait aside, this has been proposed as a feature (and a useful one
at that) by a number of people, but there seems to be some opposition
to it?

Perhaps rather than force this into Cacti, we need to develop a
generalised solution for configuring and sending alerts based on
recent values in a round-robin database. Maybe a nice command-line
tool that someone else can script a web interface for. Then it could
be built into Cacti, or used independently.

I'm up to my eyeballs in other projects at the moment, but if there
are PHP coders on this list who are interested in this (or have
already done it!!), please share.

Martin,

Here's a response to this same question I got a while back from Ian 
Berry (main author of Cacti):
"The intended fix behind the changes in lib/snmp.php between 0.8.6 and 
0.8.6b were intended to correct a problem similar to what you are 
experiencing. The problem occurred for cactid users that relied on 
PHP-SNMP for SNMP support from the web interface which does not support 
SNMP v2. When one of these users created an SNMP v2 device it would 
result in the same problem that you are experiencing."

Hope that helps explain it.

-=A=-

Martin Keding wrote:
> Thanks all all of your responses.
>  
> I found another post on this issue and it seems that SNMP v2 doesn't 
> workon the UI. In snmp.php, I commented out the following and it now 
> works. I still would like to know why this is in there as you can choose 
> SNMP ver. 2 and obviously it will then show an error on the screen. :~
>  
>         /* always use SNMP version 1 for UI stuff */
> /*      if ($environ == SNMP_WEBUI) {
>                 $version = "1";
>         }
> */
>  
> 
> Martin  
> 
>  
> 
>  
>  > I'm a newbie to Cacti but have used rrdtood for a little bit. I got
>  > Cacti installed and I can get to the web page etc. Everything looks
>  > good except when I create a device. I always get a SNMP error at the
>  > top of the page. I go to the command prompt and do a smnpwalk with the
>  > exact peramiters and it talks to the device and walks through all of
>  > the values. I then go back to Cacti and still get the same error. I
>  > can't seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
>  >
>  > Ie. (Cacti)
>  > Desc: AP13
>  > Hostname: ap13.ratrivercomm.ca
>  > Host Template: generic SNMP
>  > Community String: Can1001
>  > SNMP version: Version 2
>  > Port: 161
>  > Timeout: 500
>  >
>  > (command prompt)
>  > snmpwalk -c Can1001 -v 2c at13.ratrivercomm.ca
>  >
>  > Thanks
>