poll a data input method disgard whether the host up or down

[saya]

SOLVED
sorry that the title I made is too long to put another word "solved" in...

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saya
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Hello guys

I'm writing a script that can retrieve host status from cacti database, table host and generate a graph for host availability. The problem now is that onc the host turned down, it is not able to poll to get the value (although the value is there in database) . So I want to ask whether there's a way to poll the data input method disgard the host's status.

Any idea welcomed!!
Thanks a lot!!

[saya]

ok, let me specify clearly. I am now want to generate a host availability report using reportit plugin. but so far as I learned, reportit is only dealing with data source. So i using a script that fetch remote host status(value 3 for up and 1 for down) from table host, and graph every host's status...in this way I can simply use reportit plugin to generate availability status report by using average((status-1)/2)*100%. but my problem is that if the remote device is down, it's impossible to write rrd file and update the graph. so for these device, they only have value when they are up, and as the result the value is 3. this makes the availability still equals 100%. (but if manually run in command line, it returns 1 which means device down)

I am now thinking of using cron to update those rrd file, but have no idea whether this way is possible or not..

can help me??
Thanks a lot!!!

saya

[gandalf]

If deactivating Host Availabilty checks (cacti 087b), it should do what you required
Reinhard

[saya]

thank you for your reply.. I solved this problem simply by create the graph on localhost which is always up. As long as the script can fetch data from database every polling circle, the graph can be generated perfectly.

anyway, thanks a lot~


saya