Cacti

from what I've seen "Down" implies it's not responding to snmp queries.

I *may* have some guidance... Cacti never creates the .rrd files. The poller creates them the next time it runs via cron. I've had strange situations where the poller has run four or five times before the rrds are created. Once they've been created everything works fine. One suggestion. Go to Graph ...

I got a little ahead of myself. I need to add a bunch (~500) hosts and ~20 data sources per host. I think doing the host template, data template and graph template correctly could allieviate me from needing to add all the data sources, but the hosts are still a problem. Thanks for the pointer to exp...

ok, I'm trying to make some scripts to add some templates, data_sources and hosts. Can someone please direct me to how I can create a hash that appears valid to cacti?

Can you work around this in the meantime by going in after Cacti creates the RRD. deleting it and creating it manually as you want?

Has anyone used a tool like wget to create a bunch of data sources? I have a bunch of data input methods to create, each with a bunch of output fields and I *thought* it would be a simple wget to post the data to data_input.php. I've run into a few problems with session cookies, etc. If someone else...

I have an external script that shows the DB query latency in the last 5 minutes. It's output is like this count:2875 max:104.2 upper:41.9 average:9.2 lower:3.9 min:0.8 I want to smooth out the graph a bit (right now it's all over the place). I'd like to run this script 5 times and average the output...

bump for a "me too"

Thanks. It's nice to know I'm not missing an easy config option.

I'm fairly new to Cacti, but I've created a bunch of templates and such. It's been a painless experience so far. I am having a problem with hte names of my rrd files. I realize in the web UI it doesn't much matter what the RRD files are named, but I like to keep a tight ship. Here's my specific prob...

I'm not sure of the correct way to do this, but I know one way. there's a command-line tool to rrdtool. use rrdtool dump <name of rrdfile> to get an xml output of all the data in the RRD. You can grep for the line from exactly one week ago. Then create a shell script to put that data wherever you wa...

I am having some issues with Cacti and RRDTool. Specifically, when I create a data source the RRD file never gets created. I turned on debug mode in the web UI and can see the rrdtool command line. When I paste it into the shell it works fine (without the last \). Permissions on the rra directory ar...