Cacti

TheWitness, should I set number of pings to 40 if I use this template? From what I see in the thread about "Smokelike ping", the lowest 2 categories of your template (1-2%, 3-5%) do not make sense using 20 pings. On the other hand, 40 pings is somewhat too big for my environment, thus I'd ...

Additional info: Auditing cmd.exe, I found that for my particular installation (ping graphs), it's only the web access that calls cmd.exe. Neither the scheduler nor RRDTool make use of IUSR_xxx calling cmd.exe. Note my SchTask runs under system account. Maybe, this helps to answer my question. -fk [...

RRDTool renders the graphs, but PHP takes the results somehow, thru the console output, as far as I see. Funny to see a png graphic outputted on the console.

OK I'll do the debug. It needs 1-3 hours to apply new credentials, even if i restart iis.

Scheduled task run with system account, which has by definition no access to the network. Are these credentials used for the export job?
Doubling backslashes doesn't help.

Ping graphs are empty if I don't give permission for IUSR_xxx to CMD.EXE. On the other hand, it's a security risk 1a. - Is there a way to make it run without this setting? Which element needs access to CMD.EXE ? I think the pings I'm using run fine without CMD.EXE (Advanced ping 1.3, TPing). Thank y...

Graph export: Export to local directory refuses Windows network shares (UNC). Is it due to my permissions, or is it simply not implemented?

[Cacti 0.8.6.i unpatched, win2003, php 5.0.5.5, iis6, cygwin1.dll ]