Cacti

Is there any good documentation on how to setup baseline thold monitoring?
I just can't seem to locate any docs/posts that walks through the process.

Thanks,

I too am looking to make this change to about 800 items in my cacti config. Would really love to understand an easy way to assocaite the "Output Type ID" of "In/Out Bits (64-bit Counters)" to these 800+ interfaces that currently are set to use the 32-bit version. RRDTool will upd...

I have upgraded to the latest Cacti 0.8.6i reelase as well as the Cactid 0.8.6i release from a pevious CactiCactid 0.8.6g version and I am seeing the exact same issue. The graphs update without any errors when running the cmd.php poller, but as soon as I change Cacti to use the cactid feature, the ....

I can not seem to get the graphs to work. This is what my graph output looks like in Cacti: (attached) I can run the script successfully (I receive valid output), but I can not get the graphs to paint. Shell output: (shell)./netscreen_stats.pl xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx public cpu1:2 cpu5:2 cpu15:2 memory_allo...

I'm not a pro on RHEL or Cacti either :wink: They key to my statement about the crontab, is that you should edit cactiuser's crontab, NOT root's. If you are at the shell prompt and type: crontab -e (while logged in as root), you will see root's crontab. I would delete the */5 * * * * cactiuser php /...

What I meant by editing "cactiuser's crontab" is that in my example, cactiuser is the user account which has the permissions setup to 'run' cacti. Since the polling for the RRDTOOL is done through linux crontab schedules - I made the adjustment to "cactiuser's" crontab rather tha...

Reposted as .PDF's as requested.

:wink: After wrestling with - not only the Linux, but Cacti installs - I decided to make this my first post to give back to the community. You will find attached, 2 separate documents detailing the steps necessary for the Redhat and Cacti installations. As this was my personal install, you may or ma...

how can I get the graphs to post the virtual server name instead of the 'vmIDX'?