How do I run cactid??

[madjeff]

I must be completely blind, but I can't find anything that tells exactly how to run cactid. I've compiled and installed, but what's the actual crontab entry supposed to be?

Sorry in advance if this is a stupid question...

[dieter]

in windows it is cactid.exe, but for linux I don't know

[TFC]

I must be completely blind, but I can't find anything that tells exactly how to run cactid. I've compiled and installed, but what's the actual crontab entry supposed to be?

Sorry in advance if this is a stupid question...

First,
Go to cacti dir and cactid dir..
run tis command:
./configure
make
make install
then find the cactid executable.
and look at my crontab:

*/5 * * * * root cd /usr/local/cactid/bin; ./cactid > /dev/null 2>&1

P.S . Dont forget the write appropriate rows into cactid.conf

[madjeff]

Thanks for the reply! I threw in the crontab entry and tried it but it didn't seem to work. So, I dropped to the command line and ran the entry to see what was happening.

When I ran the following:

cd /usr/local/cactid/bin; ./cactid

I get this back:

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cactid version 0.8.5 starting.
Using cactid config file [cactid.conf].
Connecting to MySQL database 'cacti' on 'localhost'...
Using cactid config file [/etc/snmp/snmp.local.conf].
*** Unrecongized directive: defversion=2c in /etc/snmp/snmp.local.conf

I tried changing as well as commenting out the offending line in the snmp.local.conf but then it just fails on the next line. Any ideas?

[TFC]

did you get any error messages when you configure compile cactid?

[freez]

*** Unrecongized directive: defversion=2c in /etc/snmp/snmp.local.conf

looks like an error in your snmp config..

[TFC]

I suggest you that upgrade ucd-snmp or net-snmp snmp.

[mooseman]

I'm seeing this as well.

Here's the contents of my /etc/snmp/snmp.conf:

mibdirs /usr/share/snmp/mibs
mibfile
defVersion 1
#defCommunity public
defCommunity *******
showMibErrors 1
mibAllowUnderline 1
doDebugging 0

Any Ideas?

[Morgan]

why the hell is ur cactid checking ur snmpd.conf?

the cactid config file is cactid.conf

find it and use the path to it

[mooseman]

Is there something I'm missing during the compile of cactid?

cd /var/www/html/cacti/cactid
(edit cactid.conf)
./configure
make
make install

/usr/local/cactid/bin/cactid

[root@debi cactid]# /usr/local/cactid/bin/cactid
cactid version 0.8.5 starting.
Using cactid config file [cactid.conf].
Connecting to MySQL database 'cacti' on 'localhost'...
Using cactid config file [/etc/snmp/snmp.conf].
*** Unrecongized directive: mibdirs=/usr/share/snmp/mibs in /etc/snmp/snmp.conf


But I only get this error if I'm in the directory where the source is, otherwise I get this error:
[root@debi root]# /usr/local/cactid/bin/cactid
cactid version 0.8.5 starting.
Connecting to MySQL database 'cacti' on 'localhost'...
** Failed: Access denied for user: 'cactiuser@localhost' (Using password: YES)

What am I missing? Are there instructions for installing cactid that I'm missing?

[mooseman]

I grabbed the .8.6 tar file Ian posted in Morgan's other thread and compiled cactid and it worked fine, but only if I'm executing the command while in the cactid directory. Otherwise I get the same "Failed:Access denied" error I posted above.

edit: After looking around it looks like you must be in that directory.