graphs stopped working after switching to cactid

zkenton · Post by **zkenton** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:13 pm

cacti was working beautifully....graphing everything nicely...however, due to some recommendation on poller speeds I decided to switch to cactid instead of cmd.php...now cactid is grabbing all the snmp data properly, (according to the cacti log) but the graphs has stopped showing data...are there any graph modifications I need to make upon switching to cactid...at this point i dont care about speed if cmc.php graphs properly

zkenton · Post by **zkenton** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:16 pm

help gandalf help...i switched back to cmd.php and there still not coming back

danathane · Post by **danathane** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 8:25 am

Hello, I am not Gandalf but I had the same problem.
The only thing that i have done is to re-install caacti with a new database.
I think that is not the solution you wanted but it is mine, and now my cacti works perfectly with cactid

zkenton · Post by **zkenton** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 8:27 am

did you do a mysql dump and keep all your exsiting data or did you completely start over?...i'm looking for alsightly easier solution, but if i do have to rebuild i want to keep my data

danathane · Post by **danathane** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 8:29 am

Yeas I have done that but i dind't use it because 9000 graph is to long to use :d.
Don't forget to keep you rrd files to keep your datas.

You could also try to reboot you PC

zkenton · Post by **zkenton** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 8:35 am

did you have "nan" on your graphs or numbers?..it looks like i'm getting the correct numbers on the bottom of the graphs, but the graphs just arent populating with colors

zkenton · Post by **zkenton** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 8:54 am

so i've figured out that the last time the .rrd files were modified was when i changed over to cactid, and nothing since....so i'm assuming this is an rrdtool problem

Post by **gandalf** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 8:57 am

Please do any or all of the following
- make sure, cactid uses a correctly configured cactid.conf
- have a look at second link of my signature to find hints on debugging
- visit Graph Management for a failing one, switch to DEBUG and post a screenshot
Reinhard

zkenton · Post by **zkenton** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:04 am

where should cactid be located on the system...i changed the crontab to call the paht of cactid, but I read in your debug page that the crontab should always be poller.php, and now I get an invalid path error in the cacti.log...however, when i switched back to cmd.php it still didnt update the graphs

Post by **gandalf** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:15 am

zkenton wrote:where should cactid be located on the system...i changed the crontab to call the paht of cactid, but I read in your debug page that the crontab should always be poller.php, and now I get an invalid path error in the cacti.log...however, when i switched back to cmd.php it still didnt update the graphs

cactid is not part of the standard cacti installation. Either you have installed it explicitely, or it is not there. You may install it wherever you like. Please provide the path at Settings->Paths to make sure the poller will find it.
Reinhard

zkenton · Post by **zkenton** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:16 am

RRDTool Command:

/usr/bin/rrdtool graph - \
--imgformat=PNG \
--start=-86400 \
--end=-300 \
--title="exdb0 - Load Average" \
--rigid \
--base=1000 \
--height=120 \
--width=500 \
--alt-autoscale-max \
--lower-limit=0 \
--vertical-label="processes in the run queue" \
DEF:a="/var/www/html/cacti/rra/exdb0_load_1min_267.rrd":load_1min:MAX \
DEF:b="/var/www/html/cacti/rra/exdb0_load_1min_267.rrd":load_1min:AVERAGE \
DEF:c="/var/www/html/cacti/rra/exdb0_load_5min_269.rrd":load_5min:MAX \
DEF:d="/var/www/html/cacti/rra/exdb0_load_5min_269.rrd":load_5min:AVERAGE \
DEF:e="/var/www/html/cacti/rra/exdb0_load_15min_268.rrd":load_15min:MAX \
DEF:f="/var/www/html/cacti/rra/exdb0_load_15min_268.rrd":load_15min:AVERAGE \
AREA:a#000000:"1 Minute Max" \
GPRINT

LAST:" Current\:%8.2lf %s\n" \
AREA:c#FF0000:"5 Minute Max" \
GPRINT:d:LAST:" Current\:%8.2lf %s\n" \
AREA:e#EA8F00:"15 Minute Max" \
GPRINT:f:LAST:"Current\:%8.2lf %s\n"
RRDTool Says:

OK

I believe it says this because it's reading the .rrd from yesterday at 1:45, which is when i attempted the cutover to cactid...it is not updating with any of the new data however, even though poller is gathering data

zkenton · Post by **zkenton** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:23 am

alright....crontab is still poller.php, and cactid is running nicely with the properly specified path...however, the .rrds are still not updating..they still have yesterday's time stamp...thanks for the help by the way...i'm not doing so hot losing all these graphs

zkenton · Post by **zkenton** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:09 am

So i've been reading of some problems with swithching poller tools (cmd.php and/or cactid) causing corrupt rrd directories and not being able to update them. The problem has been narrowed down to poller.php not updating my rrd directory. I am running CACTID 0.8.6i and whatever the newest version of cacti is at this point...how would i get these to start updating again

zkenton · Post by **zkenton** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:48 am

So i've upgraded my rrdtool to 1.2.x, so everything should be the newest right now...no rrdtool updates

Post by **gandalf** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:27 am

zkenton wrote:alright....crontab is still poller.php, and cactid is running nicely with the properly specified path...however, the .rrds are still not updating..they still have yesterday's time stamp...thanks for the help by the way...i'm not doing so hot losing all these graphs

Best try would be to login as cactiuser and run

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php -q poller.php

then. All rrdtool update errors (if any) should show up now. As they are going to STDERR, they usually do not show up in cacti.log.
Reinhard

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