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by aut0maticdan
Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:56 am
Forum: Help: General
Topic: Question about running Cacti on a VMware ESX server
Replies: 12
Views: 9331

just to report back on my issue

It was totally my bad. I have a cold standby system ready to take over in case this particular admin machine goes down. Part of that is regular syncing of the admin web applications like cacti and some home grown stuff. I used yum to install cacti on both machines and that automatically puts the pol...
by aut0maticdan
Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:29 pm
Forum: Help: General
Topic: Question about running Cacti on a VMware ESX server
Replies: 12
Views: 9331

If it's on a VM, it's due to clock drifting. For this reason alone, "I HATE VM'S FOR TIME SENSITIVE CALCULATIONS" . If you want to overcome this in Cacti, you must change your cron to the following: php -q poller.php --force TheWitness This right here: Cron period of '300' seconds, but on...