Cacti

Actually no, it's not that obvious. While you're at it, why don't you stop telling everyone everything is so friggin obvious. If if was so obvious, we wouldn't be here in this forum talking to you people. Stating "IP address for Windows" is not obvious enough. The line before it says "...

OK, changing the IP address to 127.0.0.1 fixed the problem. That should probably be noted somewhere in the instal files.

Thanks for the help.

Interesting... When I run cactid.exe manually I get: CACTID: Using cactid config file [cactid.conf] CACTID: MYSQL: Connection Failed: Host 'Myservername' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server -- Myservername is the name of my server. I guess that's why it hangs, cause there's an authenticat...

Yes 2x.

I'm using Cactid version .8.6f (I guess that's the version) from http://www.cacti.net/cactid_download.php

When I had an incorrect path before the poller windows gave a specific error.

Do you mean using cactid.exe for polling, instead of cmd.php?

If so, login to the Cacti website, go to Settings, then Poller, and change the Poller Type to Cactid.exe

Hi, I had the same problem as above. I'm now using the correct RRDtool, but when I run the scheduled task, or run "php poller.php" in the Cacti directory, the command window just hangs. Right now I have a hung SVCHOST as well, due to the scheduled task. Any pointers? Update: This problem o...