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In my fist attempt to work with rrdtools and cacti, I've come across a =
puzzle. I've installed the Debian versions of rrdtools (1.0.42) and cacti =
(0.6.8) and seem to have them working okay. One graph I'm drawing is =
number of hits to an Apache web server running on another host. Most of =
the time, this looks fine. However, for periods up to a couple of hours, =
it doesn't register any hits on the graph. This is very strange, because =
this web server average over 400 hits in a 5-minute period, all throughout =
the day.

The cacti logs look normal:
admin2:/var/log/cacti# grep "05/30/2003 1[01]:.. AM.*www_main" rrd.log     =
    =20
05/30/2003 10:00 AM - CMD: /usr/bin/rrdtool update /usr/share/cacti/rra/www=
_main_webhits.rrd --template www_main_webhits N:22290
05/30/2003 10:05 AM - CMD: /usr/bin/rrdtool update /usr/share/cacti/rra/www=
_main_webhits.rrd --template www_main_webhits N:22634
05/30/2003 10:10 AM - CMD: /usr/bin/rrdtool update /usr/share/cacti/rra/www=
_main_webhits.rrd --template www_main_webhits N:22949
05/30/2003 10:15 AM - CMD: /usr/bin/rrdtool update /usr/share/cacti/rra/www=
_main_webhits.rrd --template www_main_webhits N:23191
05/30/2003 10:20 AM - CMD: /usr/bin/rrdtool update /usr/share/cacti/rra/www=
_main_webhits.rrd --template www_main_webhits N:23512
05/30/2003 10:25 AM - CMD: /usr/bin/rrdtool update /usr/share/cacti/rra/www=
_main_webhits.rrd --template www_main_webhits N:23867
05/30/2003 10:30 AM - CMD: /usr/bin/rrdtool update /usr/share/cacti/rra/www=
_main_webhits.rrd --template www_main_webhits N:24352
05/30/2003 10:35 AM - CMD: /usr/bin/rrdtool update /usr/share/cacti/rra/www=
_main_webhits.rrd --template www_main_webhits N:24888
05/30/2003 10:40 AM - CMD: /usr/bin/rrdtool update /usr/share/cacti/rra/www=
_main_webhits.rrd --template www_main_webhits N:25237
05/30/2003 10:45 AM - CMD: /usr/bin/rrdtool update /usr/share/cacti/rra/www=
_main_webhits.rrd --template www_main_webhits N:25623
05/30/2003 10:50 AM - CMD: /usr/bin/rrdtool update /usr/share/cacti/rra/www=
_main_webhits.rrd --template www_main_webhits N:25940
05/30/2003 10:55 AM - CMD: /usr/bin/rrdtool update /usr/share/cacti/rra/www=
_main_webhits.rrd --template www_main_webhits N:26406
05/30/2003 11:00 AM - CMD: /usr/bin/rrdtool update /usr/share/cacti/rra/www=
_main_webhits.rrd --template www_main_webhits N:26876
05/30/2003 11:05 AM - CMD: /usr/bin/rrdtool update /usr/share/cacti/rra/www=
_main_webhits.rrd --template www_main_webhits N:27210
05/30/2003 11:10 AM - CMD: /usr/bin/rrdtool update /usr/share/cacti/rra/www=
_main_webhits.rrd --template www_main_webhits N:27560

Yet, the data doesn't seem to be making it into the rrd:
admin2:/var/cache/cacti# rrdtool fetch www_main_webhits.rrd AVERAGE -s =
-2hour=20
           www_main_webhits

1054300200: nan
1054300500: nan
1054300800: nan
1054301100: nan
1054301400: 9.5333333333e-01
1054301700: 9.8551244890e-01
1054302000: 9.8662207358e-01
1054302300: nan
1054302600: nan
1054302900: 8.6333333333e-01
1054303200: 8.6333333333e-01
1054303500: nan
1054303800: nan
1054304100: 8.0666666667e-01
1054304400: 8.0666666667e-01
1054304700: nan
1054305000: nan
1054305300: nan
1054305600: nan
1054305900: nan
1054306200: nan
1054306500: nan
1054306800: nan
1054307100: nan
1054307400: nan
1054307700: nan
admin2:/var/cache/cacti#=20

Any suggestions on how to begin troubleshooting this problem?

Thanks for your help and suggestions.

-Kevin Zembower

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Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs
111 Market Place, Suite 310
Baltimore, MD  21202
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Has anyone here used Fidelia NetVigil?  If so, you probably noticed that it
is very similar to Cacti, except it has a few added features...  It can
monitor interface status (up/down/etc) and other things, and it can also
send alerts out when interfaces are down or certain thresholds are met for
interface utilization.

If cacti had a poller that ran all of the time, couldn't alerting
functionality be easily built into it?  It wouldn't be too hard to make it
be able to poll for interface status either.  Then you have your all-in-one
monitoring package with graphing for traffic stats, interface status, and
alerting.  The basis of it all is there, should just be a matter of figuring
out the OID's and how to autodiscover interfaces to monitor.

Thoughts?

Jay

	Hi,

I have had a cacti install working for a few weeks and I am pretty
comfortable moving around in the interface. I am able to monitor the host
on which Cacti runs with no problem and I want to monitor other hosts
remotely via SNMP.

I set up a new Data Source, say ProcessTest, I edit the data input type to
include the IP address of the host, the snmp community and the OID I want
to monitor in this case hrSystemProcesses.0. I then save this input type
and check it a few moments later and I can see the output above the
config:

INTERNAL: [10.0.0.55/public] OID: [hrSystemProcesses.0]
/usr/bin/rrdtool update
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/monitor/rra/processtest.rrd --template
processtest N:111

There are indeed 111 processes running on said server.

I click on Cron Printout and then Show Output to make sure the data is
getting collected and this is where I get my first problem. The left side
of the screen for cron print out shows:

 INTERNAL: [10.0.0.55/public] OID: [hrSystemProcesses.0]

The right side of the screen shows me nothing. Not even Zero. I am pretty
sure it is useless at this point to graph something so I started some
loging. The output is:

Error in packet
Reason: (noSuchName) There is no such variable name in this MIB.
Failed object: SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB::usmUserPublic


The output of snmpget shows me:
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystemProcesses.0 = Gauge32: 111

So I am not sure where SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB::usmUserPublic is coming
from.

What would be the best way to graph info on remote systems with cacti?

Thanks,

Erric

Thanx for the help...

I checked the php.ini and it includes:
register_globals on
register_argc_argv on

Also I tried as you said to create a .htaccess in the cacti directory
including the lines you said.

Again I have the same problem.. install.php does not go to step 2...

regards,
Stella

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 10:15, Gwenn wrote:
> > Clicking on NEXT nothing happens and reloads again the install.php
> > page.
> > I'm using php 4.3.1 and apache 1.3.27.
> > What might be the problem?
> 
> Your apache/php is configured not to register params as
> globals.
> 
> You can put these two lines in a .htaccess file in your
> cacti dir :
> php_flag register_globals on
> php_flag register_argc_argv on
> 
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> Clicking on NEXT nothing happens and reloads again the install.php
> page.
> I'm using php 4.3.1 and apache 1.3.27.
> What might be the problem?

Your apache/php is configured not to register params as
globals.

You can put these two lines in a .htaccess file in your
cacti dir :
php_flag register_globals on
php_flag register_argc_argv on

-- Gwenn

Hi everyone.
I have installed cacti in my system and when I point the browser to
http://localhost/cacti/index.php, I see the file install.php with a
button NEXT.
Clicking on NEXT nothing happens and reloads again the install.php page.
I'm using php 4.3.1 and apache 1.3.27.
What might be the problem?

thank you in advance,
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got cacti to recognize the data from the PHP scripts, but am finding that our
graph generation is failing for the daily/5mi graph (generating on the HBARs)
but is still collecting and displaying data correctly for the remainder of the
graphs (weekly, monthly, etc...)

thoughts?

Dave

I have set up the weatherbug.pl script on my machine with cacti 0.68a
and I'm having trouble with the graphs.

As I understand rrd and cacti, temperature is a guage function, however,
setting it up as a GUAGE with or without "make every five minutes" gives
me a temp of 300 x temp, or in other words, the temperature, barometer,
etc is shown as 300 X the actual value, i.e. a temp of 48 F shows as
14.4 K

However, if I set up the graph and data as ABSOLUTE and "make every 5
minutes", then everything appears as normal.

How do I use the GUAGE function within Cacti? Or do I not use it for
temperature, etc?

Regards,

-- 
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I believe that there are to many forms to do it. Personally, I would to
create my own script running on some port in the remote machine, and in
cacti machine one script that make a "telnet $REMOTE $PORT" to collect data.

Diego.

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Enviado el: Martes, 20 de Mayo de 2003 04:44 p.m.
Para: cac...@li...
Asunto: [cacti-user] NEWBIE: Collecting non-SNMP data from remote agents


I'm trying to get my first installation of cacti and rrdtool working. I'm
also brand new to SNMP in general. So far, I've got my 0.6.8 version of
cacti graphing both non-SNMP data, such as Apache/Samba/MySQL connections,
on the localhost, as well as SNMP data, such as IP bytes inbound and
outbound, from hosts running NET-SNMP on hosts other than the local host.

What I want to do next is graph something like web hits from a host other
than the local host. I'm not sure where to start. Do I copy part of the
cacti distribution to the remote hosts and run them through something like
ssh? Will cacti directly query a remote host to determine this data? Do I
have to write my own 'external' program to collect this data?

I'm guessing that this is a common and probably simple problem, that I'm
just overlooking. I've read the manual and searched the mailing list
archives on 'external', but, if I saw the answer, I didn't recognize it.

Thank you for your help and suggestions.

-Kevin Zembower

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Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs
111 Market Place, Suite 310
Baltimore, MD  21202
410-659-6139



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I'm trying to get my first installation of cacti and rrdtool working. I'm =
also brand new to SNMP in general. So far, I've got my 0.6.8 version of =
cacti graphing both non-SNMP data, such as Apache/Samba/MySQL connections, =
on the localhost, as well as SNMP data, such as IP bytes inbound and =
outbound, from hosts running NET-SNMP on hosts other than the local host.

What I want to do next is graph something like web hits from a host other =
than the local host. I'm not sure where to start. Do I copy part of the =
cacti distribution to the remote hosts and run them through something like =
ssh? Will cacti directly query a remote host to determine this data? Do I =
have to write my own 'external' program to collect this data?

I'm guessing that this is a common and probably simple problem, that I'm =
just overlooking. I've read the manual and searched the mailing list =
archives on 'external', but, if I saw the answer, I didn't recognize it.

Thank you for your help and suggestions.

-Kevin Zembower

-----
E. Kevin Zembower
Unix Administrator
Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs
111 Market Place, Suite 310
Baltimore, MD  21202
410-659-6139

have been unsuccessful in getting Cacti to recognize and get data from a PHP
script;

Data Input Source Configuration
Name		"Get Something"
Input		"/usr/local/custom/myscript.php <VAR>"
Output	"<RESULT>"
Current Data Input Source Fields
RESULT	RESULT	Output	Yes
VAR		VAR		Input		No

when I go to "Cron Printout" to ensure it is pulling the results correctly I see
"/usr/local/custom/myscript.php MYVAR"		""

When I run the same script via the shell I get
nx# /usr/local/custom/myscript.php MYVAR
76
nx#

Have tried formatting the string, removing line feeds and cr, running out of
ideas here.

script looks like the following
-- begin myscript.php --
#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
<?PHP
$type=$argv[1];
if($type=='MYVAR'){
	echo '76'."\n";
}
?>
-- end myscript.php --

Thoughts?

Dave

This is fairly easy to do with templates. Select the traffic graph
template (bits or bytes), and move the bottom group (LINE1) to the top.
Then reverse the color, legend, and graph item types of both groups. The
end result with be a graph template that has reversed data sources.

Ian

On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 13:20, Bryan Koschmann - GKT wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there an easy way to reverse a bunch of interfaces? I have about 140
> that the inbound and outbound aren't to my liking. Using version
> 0.8-pre20030507.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> 	Bryan

Hello,

Is there an easy way to reverse a bunch of interfaces? I have about 140
that the inbound and outbound aren't to my liking. Using version
0.8-pre20030507.

Thanks in advance!

	Bryan

Nevermind, my mistake, got all mixed up and screwed up some permissions
AND cron. *sigh*

Sorry..

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Bryan Koschmann - GKT wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just finished setting up cacti from cacti-0.8-pre20030507.tar.gz. Went
> through the Poll Host, added a bunch of interfaces from our Cisco, but I
> don't seem to be getting any data.
>
> It's seems to run with no errors and have had it in cron for about an
> hour, still nothing.
>
> Something I might be missing here?
>
> Thanks,
>
> 	Bryan
>
>
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Hi,

Just finished setting up cacti from cacti-0.8-pre20030507.tar.gz. Went
through the Poll Host, added a bunch of interfaces from our Cisco, but I
don't seem to be getting any data.

It's seems to run with no errors and have had it in cron for about an
hour, still nothing.

Something I might be missing here?

Thanks,

	Bryan

Hello,

Whith default options, df can print info for one filesystem
on two lines if there is a long device name :

/dev/vg_data/distfiles
                      20434316  20116848    317468  99%
/usr/portage/distfiles

In such case, diskfree.pl (and probably query_unix_partitions.pl too)
can't get the free space. They both should use the "-P" (portability,
POSIX) option so df will allways output info on one line.

-- Gwenn

I have followed all the installatio instructions 2 the letter but I cant
get to open index.php instead it goes straight to install.php.
Below is a copy of my apache error_log


-- 
[error] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: database in
/techie/bench/mont/cacti-0.6.8a/include/database.php on line 17
[Thu May 8 03:05:04 2003] [error] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: step in
/techie/bench/mont/cacti-0.6.8a/install.php on line 105
----

Thanks for the help
Ken

Matt,

I'm just trying to install now. It is requiring a new database. Will I be
able to merge the previous data, or will it have to start from scratch?

Thanks,

	Bryan

On 6 May 2003, matt b wrote:

|This is addressed in version 8. its available from
|http://raxnet.net/downloads/beta/  They're nightly builds so its not
|perfect, but it'll do what you want.

I wouldn't have a problem doing this except I have no idea what all needs
to be entered into the database. I hunted through it and it seemed quite
confusing. Maybe it's just me.

If anyone has some quick info to do this, I could do it in php or
something. I just need to know what I need to insert and where.

Thanks,

	Bryan

On Wed, 7 May 2003, Mohamed Eldesoky wrote:

|Can you do a simple shell script that inserts to the database all the items
|you want ??
|I didn't something similar, but our configuration is different.
|However, I have more than 1000 interfaces....and it is changing everyday !!
|
|Regards
|Mohamed Eldesoky
|

Can you do a simple shell script that inserts to the database all the items 
you want ??
I didn't something similar, but our configuration is different.
However, I have more than 1000 interfaces....and it is changing everyday !!

Regards
Mohamed Eldesoky

On Wednesday 07 May 2003 1:00 am, Bryan Koschmann - GKT wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there any way to easily add many interfaces? All are are snmp, have in
> and out, and would use the bytes-into-bits cdef.
>
> There are about 140 of them, and it is quite painful to setup each one
> manually (make graph, add items, add subitems, set cdefs, set
> names-avg-min-max-etc, and so on).
>
> I would even be please with making ALL snmp interfaces into graphs then
> removing what I don't need.
>
> Any help would be great!
>
> Thanks,
>
> 	Bryan
>
>
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Once a wise man said "nothing"

This is addressed in version 8. its available from
http://raxnet.net/downloads/beta/  They're nightly builds so its not
perfect, but it'll do what you want.

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 18:00, Bryan Koschmann - GKT wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Is there any way to easily add many interfaces? All are are snmp, have in
> and out, and would use the bytes-into-bits cdef.
> 
> There are about 140 of them, and it is quite painful to setup each one
> manually (make graph, add items, add subitems, set cdefs, set
> names-avg-min-max-etc, and so on).
> 
> I would even be please with making ALL snmp interfaces into graphs then
> removing what I don't need.
> 
> Any help would be great!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Bryan
> 
> 
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Hello,

Is there any way to easily add many interfaces? All are are snmp, have in
and out, and would use the bytes-into-bits cdef.

There are about 140 of them, and it is quite painful to setup each one
manually (make graph, add items, add subitems, set cdefs, set
names-avg-min-max-etc, and so on).

I would even be please with making ALL snmp interfaces into graphs then
removing what I don't need.

Any help would be great!

Thanks,

	Bryan

Huh...I didn't even rememebr ever seeing a beta before LOL :)

I'll be sure to snarf a copy of it tonight and take a look over here.

--On Monday, May 05, 2003 12:57 PM -0400 Ian Berry <ib...@ra...> 
wrote:

> No, but the only thing holding it back right now is additional testing.
> Feel free to check out the latest pre-release on the raXnet page:
>
> http://www.raxnet.net/downloads/beta/
>
> Submit and bug reports to bugzilla.raxnet.net or post problems to the
> pre-release forum on the message board.
>
> Ian
>
> On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 05:01, Olav Langeland wrote:
>> Is there any timetable for a new version release of Cacti?
>>
>> regards, olav langeland
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On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 07:49, Kristjan Thordarson wrote:
> You really need a CHANGES file for those beta releases.

I agree, that is a good idea. You could also check out the CVS tree via
cvsweb on SourceForge in the interim to see my log entries.

Is there anything in particular (change-wise) that I could help you
with?

Ian