Cacti

On a semi-related note, I recently updated my bind related data/graph templates and data input methods for the most recent version of bind. You can find them here: http://forums.cacti.net/about3018-165.html You might not want to take my approach though. I'm monitoring bind stats via a munin-node plu...

One follow-up post... on the bind 9.5 stats graph, the NaN for recursive queries is because this is on an authoritative-only server. This is normally a line element if your bind server is config'd to allow recursive queries. The perl script can be used to make lots of data input methods for whatever...

K, I'll put something together in the next day or two and will post it here. Brent Ok, here we go. It appears there's no way to export a data input method (BUMMER!) but I made a README file that describes how to install/setup the included munin-node plugins and how to setup the data input methods. ...

umarzuki wrote:that's very generous of you. I'd love too. How about making somekind of a guide on that too.

K, I'll put something together in the next day or two and will post it here.

Brent

oldsk8trbabe et al, Yep, I'm in the same situation - the new version of bind has a different rndc output which does not work with this template/script combination. I've got a couple of scripts and templates that are working ok with the new bind rndc output format. I haven't bothered to post it here...

I'm using these OIDs to monitor paging: io_recvd: .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.58.0 io_sent: .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.57.0 As to the script, I don't have it handy, but it was something along these lines: #!/bin/bash # si.bash get swap in vmstat 1 2 |tail -1 |awk '{print $7 }' #!/bin/bash #so.bash get swap out v...

I'm glad this topic is coming up for discussion. I definitely like the idea of having multiple pollers because we would like to be able to have multiple pollers in multiple geographic locations to keep as much of the polling traffic "local" as possible (less snmp traffic going over WAN/VPN...

Be sure to skim Gandalf's URLs on debugging tips. Some other things I sometimes do to figure out problems like this... If you go to the cacti settings and set the log level higher you can see in the log file the values the cacti poller is getting back before adding it to the rrd file. If I still don...

Correct! You get a cookie! :D (heh heh) I was a programmer in a previous lifetime and sorta got shunted sideways into IT by accident. :-) Plus I've been using cacti for 4 or 5 years so I oughta know at least a little about it by now. I haven't really dug into the source much yet but the plugin arch...

sorry but there is still one part i dont understand. as mention by jay just that the script needs to reside on cacti server under the scripts folder. but what i'm confuse is that how does cacti actually pull data from the server using the scripts? Be sure to skim the links the others posted as ther...

Do you have any devices that are flagged as down? If so, maybe disable them. I've got several devices on the other side of a firewall that I can (at least right now) only monitor via TCP and one day I noticed that if one of those systems was down cactid gathered data for everything that was up but a...

Aha! I think I know what happened, though I'm not entirely sure why. This last time the poller ran it reported running out of space in the poller_output table (I had been running ENGINE=MEMORY). I dropped and recreated the table back as a normal MYISAM table and the RRD files are getting updated aga...

I've screwed something up somehow, but I'm not quite sure how. I can see cacti running the poller, the poller is logging results it's getting from the things we want to monitor, but the RRD files aren't getting updated. Here's what happened. I added "noatime" to the mount options on the fi...

I posted an idea I've been bouncing around in my head for a year or two on the requested features forum and got a reply referring me to this thread. So I'll post my ideas here too -- for what they're worth. :-) I admit I've only skimmed the documentation for boost (and it sounds pretty great -- espe...

We have a cisco 2800 series router connecting our users to the internet and are looking for a way to monitor how much internet bandwidth individual users, or at least IPs are using. We don't have managed switches. Does cacti support netflows or something? Any thoughts on other tools that might acco...