Basic installations problems

[etc]

From the INSTALL file, it's not clear what "your full Cacti path" is. Is it here Cacti is installed?

Also, when I go to the http://cacti_server/cacti, all I get is an Index page with nothing on it. Certainly no login prompt.
I made sure that httpd was started. This is on Linux Advanced Server 4.


7. Add a line to your /etc/crontab file similar to:

*/5 * * * * cactiuser php /var/www/html/cacti/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1

Replace cactiuser with the valid user specified in the previous step.

Replace /var/www/html/cacti/ with your full Cacti path.

8. Point your web browser to:

http://your-server/cacti/

Log in the with a username/password of admin. You will be required to
change this password immediately. Make sure to fill in all of the path
variables carefully and correctly on the following screen.

[gandalf]

Full cacti path refers to the path, where all cacti php files live in. The crontab calls poller.php, so you must enter the full path to that very file.
Reinhard

[etc]

OK, I put the exact path in the crontab entry, where the php files are.
To test, I su'ed to the cacti user and tried to execute it manually and here is what I got, it doesn't look right. And there is nothing on the web page when I go to it.



[cacti@bizcacti ~]$ /usr/local/cacti-0.8.6j/poller.php
sh: -: command not found

[Rael]

OK, I put the exact path in the crontab entry, where the php files are.
To test, I su'ed to the cacti user and tried to execute it manually and here is what I got, it doesn't look right. And there is nothing on the web page when I go to it.



[cacti@bizcacti ~]$ /usr/local/cacti-0.8.6j/poller.php
sh: -: command not found

Of course it wouldn't look right, you're trying to execute the php script as a shell script.

type `php /usr/local/cacti-0.8.6j/poller.php` to initiate the php processor

[etc]

What does this mean?

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root:/usr/local/cacti-0.8.6j # php  /usr/local/cacti-0.8.6j/poller.php
sh: -: command not found
Content-type: text/html
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9

04/23/2007 05:24:59 AM - POLLER: Poller[0] Maximum runtime of 292 seconds exceeded. Exiting.
04/23/2007 05:24:59 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:293.1492 Method:cmd.php Processes:1 Threads:N/A Hosts:2 HostsPerProcess:2 DataSources:0 RRDsProcessed:0
PHP Warning:  pclose(): 44 is not a valid stream resource in /usr/local/cacti-0.8.6j/lib/rrd.php on line 48

[/b]

[etc]

I think it's making progress as it's a more meaningful error message.



# php /usr/local/cacti-0.8.6j/poller.php
Content-type: text/html
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9

04/23/2007 06:03:54 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] FATAL: Cannot connect to MySQL server on 'bizcacti'. Please make sure you have specified a valid MySQL database name in 'include/config.php'.
sh: -: command not found

[egarnel]

I think it's making progress as it's a more meaningful error message.



# php /usr/local/cacti-0.8.6j/poller.php
Content-type: text/html
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9

04/23/2007 06:03:54 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] FATAL: Cannot connect to MySQL server on 'bizcacti'. Please make sure you have specified a valid MySQL database name in 'include/config.php'.
sh: -: command not found

change bizcacti to localhost (assuming you are not connecting to mysql on another box)

[etc]

Yes, MySQL is on the same box. Still having issues with authentication - could it be the password is not synced?


# php /usr/local/cacti-0.8.6j/poller.php
Content-type: text/html
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9

04/23/2007 08:22:48 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] FATAL: Cannot connect to MySQL server on 'localhost'. Please make sure you have specified a valid MySQL database name in 'include/config.php'.
sh: -: command not found
04/23/2007 08:27:41 AM - POLLER: Poller[0] Maximum runtime of 292 seconds exceeded. Exiting.
04/23/2007 08:27:41 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:292.8034 Method:cmd.php Processes:1 Threads:N/A Hosts:1 HostsPerProcess:1 DataSources: RRDsProcessed:0
PHP Warning: pclose(): 23 is not a valid stream resource in /usr/local/cacti-0.8.6j/lib/rrd.php on line 48

[egarnel]

the password in config.php must match that of the mysql user who can manage the cacti database.

[arevelo]

Please help me
how can i know if the poller.php is working ?, I ran from cli:
[root@localhost cacti]# php poller.php
Content-type: text/html
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9

but i didn't have another line that told if all is ok. I don''t known if it's de reason why I can't do any graph with cacti , allways recive the same error:
RRDTool Says:
ERROR: opening '/opt/lampp/htdocs/cacti/rra/switch_gestion_mplsatm_snmp_oid_12.rrd': No such file or directory


thanks

[grifs71]

Please help me
how can i know if the poller.php is working ?, I ran from cli:
[root@localhost cacti]# php poller.php
Content-type: text/html
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9

but i didn't have another line that told if all is ok. I don''t known if it's de reason why I can't do any graph with cacti , allways recive the same error:
RRDTool Says:
ERROR: opening '/opt/lampp/htdocs/cacti/rra/switch_gestion_mplsatm_snmp_oid_12.rrd': No such file or directory


thanks

I had this same issue, I battled through the cacti and did a chown cactiuser:apache on rra however I am not really sure what I did to make it work now.

Gandalf helped me a lot on here see my post...

http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?p=164260#164260