Cacti

I changed the crontab using crontab -e and that seemed to work. Apparently I was not editing the correct crontab file for cactiuser. Now I'm getting graphs and seems to be working good. I really appreciate all the help. You have been more than patient.. Thanks much, Kevin. Final crontab config: SHEL...

Here is a cut and paste of it... was i supposed to redirect it from dev/null? SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ */5 * * * * cactiuser php /usr/local/downloads/cacti-0.8.6h/poller.php > /dev/null 2> &1 # run-parts 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4...

Well... i lied.

I thought it was working, but really it only displayed the information from when I ran poller.php from the command line. It appears that poller.php and ping.pl are not being periodocally ran to update my rdd files. Where can I check this? Under Collection Methods?

thanks

Reinhard,
thanks for the persistant help. It appears that it was just a permissions problem. I could run the poller.php as root, but did not have permissions for cactiuser. once I changed that I can get the graph to display, no problem.

Thanks much.

Kevin

This is the last item in my Poller Cache if that helps.


Data Source: VDR Router - ping
RRD: /usr/local/downloads/cacti-0.8.6h/rra/vdr_router_time_20.rrd
Action: 1, Script: perl /usr/local/downloads/cacti-0.8.6h/scripts/ping.pl 10.6.200.1

Well of course ;)

Now it appears that there is no .rrd file being created iin the directory for the tool to select. In other words, there are no files in the /rra/ directory.


RRDTool Says:

ERROR: opening '/usr/local/downloads/cacti-0.8.6h/rra/vdr_router_time_20.rrd': No such file or directory

version is RRDtool 1.2.13

when I run debug i get the following:

RRDTool Says:

ERROR: Legend set but no color: RTT


Thanks again for help.

Kevin

here is a cut & paste of the rrdtool graph statement ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** /usr/bin/rrdtool graph - \ --imgformat=PNG \ --start=-86400 \ --end=-300 \ --title="VDR Router -...

I read the howto for "Data input method" and it helped me quite a bit. However, everything seemed to work just fine until I got to the last step of displaying the ping information. when I click on the graph I literally get no data. Not even the x and y axis grid.

checking them now. thanks.

I'm new to both Cacti and rrdtool so please go easy on me... I'm trying to make sure I understand the overall processes involved here. Basically Cacti uses snmpwalk, snmpget and such to grab snmp data from my router. It then creates a file in the 'usr/local/raa' folder. Then rrd is run on this file ...