Boost on Win2k3

[MU-IT]

Hi,

I'm not 100% on where this question goes, but it is explicitly for win2k3, so...

Does boost work on windows 2003?
The readme accompanied has a few things i question, like using a php file as a service (use sc for this?) as well as the code I look at references things i don't have.

How can I effectively undo or turn boost off? I test in a VM, and can snapshot beforehand, but am curious if it is changeable back and forth.

Thanks!

[BSOD2600]

Yes, any plugin should be OS independent.

Yes, you can turn any plugin off or on.

Moving to the correct forum .

[MU-IT]

argh. my batting average for correct forum placement is not exactly stellar.... I apologize for creating the extra work BSOD.

How does one configure Boost for win2k3

anyone have a win-centric step-by-step?

I've horribly mangled a VM in my attempt, and would appreciate a word of advice.

thanks!

[BSOD2600]

Have you already read through the boost thread http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=18430 and accompany readme file with it for pointers?

[MU-IT]

yep. and i must be missing a little step somewhere, or be misunderstanding something.

I was hoping for a "installing Boost on win2k3 for dummies" post.

I'll try to describe my situation.

i tried 1.7 from cactiusers.org. It does not contain a modified folder per the directions. I tried 1.6, it contains a modified folder, containing only poller.php. There was no 'lib' directory in either. At this point I assumed the documentation to be out of date. I proceeded installing 1.6:

the following are results of the readme, per step.

1. I installed the MyISAM.sql formatting.
2. I changed the include/globabl.php like other plugins
3. I copied the poller.php in the modified dir to the root cacti folder.
4. My poller user has full rights in my 'sandbox' VM. i skipped this step
5. I enabled 'On Demand RRD Updating'
6. My web user has full rights in my 'sandbox' VM. I skipped this step.
7. I don't have a boost server.

At this point, my graphs stopped graphing. The poller appeared to be running, the most verbose logging didn't help me much.

I then tried enabling a boost_server, which failed miserably.

My understanding is that I do not have to have a boost_server service as my various components have appropriate rights.

I spent most of the day troubleshooting and finally reverted back to no boost, cmd.php and cactid only.

thanks for reading all that.

[MU-IT]

Sorry for double post. I realized I forgot some stuff.

In reading the boost thread, i retried with the things mentioned.. like not copying files since I have the PIA, etc.