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Polling Win32 C: Drives for space

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Using the Win2k/xp templates, every server that I poll for disk space has issues with the c:. only the c: drive. other drives are fine.

sometimes, all it shows is the available space.
sometimes, all it shows is the disk used.
sometimes it shows both.
sometimes it's intermittent, smidges of usage over available space.

no problems with polling otherwise, no crazy timeouts or gaps.
02/06/2009 11:20:11 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:10.4022 Method:cmd.php Processes:2 Threads:N/A Hosts:15 HostsPerProcess:8 DataSources:234 RRDsProcessed:155
02/06/2009 11:15:12 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:10.3770 Method:cmd.php Processes:2 Threads:N/A Hosts:15 HostsPerProcess:8 DataSources:234 RRDsProcessed:155
02/06/2009 11:10:12 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:10.5502 Method:cmd.php Processes:2 Threads:N/A Hosts:16 HostsPerProcess:8 DataSources:234 RRDsProcessed:155
02/06/2009 11:05:11 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:9.3631 Method:cmd.php Processes:2 Threads:N/A Hosts:16 HostsPerProcess:8 DataSources:232 RRDsProcessed:154
02/06/2009 11:00:10 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:9.3741 Method:cmd.php Processes:2 Threads:N/A Hosts:16 HostsPerProcess:8 DataSources:232 RRDsProcessed:154
here's a link to screenshots of the c: drives of servers at one site.
http://agitated.net/pics/cacti-win32-disk-issues.pdf

this happened on two systems (of two) running cacti after upgrading to 0.87.c

centos 5.1
rrdtool 1.2.27 from source
php from packages
apache from packages
cacti from source
mysql from packages

the other system has a similar configuration but a larger scale and the problem is more pronounced.

thoughts?

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Please name the exact Data Query used. There were some fixes on related scripts. YOu may want to fetch them from SVN
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SNMP - Get Mounted Partitions

<path_cacti>/resource/script_server/host_disk.xml
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I have had success plotting Disk, memory and LAN info with template found here:
http://forums.cacti.net/about11634.html&highlight=ucd

I have the template that says "Alex's Unix Host Template set for Cacti, version 1.2, GPL license"

Please note that I am running Cacti on opensuse and monitoring my Windows 2003 server hosts with template successfully.
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Post by PRandal »

Same problem here, Cacti 0.8.7c
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The problem is likely the heartbeat in the Template. Make sure it's 600 seconds for both. You may need to update your RRDfiles as well. Also, windows has issues, you may need to increase the timeout. If you have no warning messages in your logs, then I suspect the former issue.

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'SNMP - Generic OID Template' already has a heartbeat of 600.

how do i update my RRAs?
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Wrong template.
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Post by sllywhtboy »

sorry, Host MIB - Hard Drive Space has a heartbeat of 600 for both hdd_total and hdd_used.

none of the standard templates were changed when this was implemented.
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Post by PRandal »

Grabbing an updated lib/rrd.php from svn appears to have fixed this for me.

Errm, well, it improved things, but similar problems show up elsewhere...

Cheers,

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Please use 087d. Fixed all known issues of 087c
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hmm. replaced cacti with 0.8.7d, no real improvement.

when i changed the hosts from SNMP v2 to SNMP v1 from about 10:30 to 13:30 and got improvements on some (disk usage where i only had space) and degradation in others (space where i had usage)

i went back to SNMP v2 after.

screenshot - http://agitated.net/pics/cacti-087d-win ... issues.pdf
view_tech wrote: General Information
Date Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:53:22 -0500
Cacti Version 0.8.7d
Cacti OS unix
SNMP Version NET-SNMP version: 5.3.1
RRDTool Version RRDTool 1.2.x
Hosts 15
Graphs 153
Data Sources Script/Command: 17
SNMP: 25
SNMP Query: 27
Script Query - Script Server: 86
Total: 155
Poller Information
Interval 300
Type spine
Items Action[0]: 79
Action[1]: 17
Action[2]: 138
Total: 234
Concurrent Processes 2
Max Threads 5
PHP Servers 1
Script Timeout 45
Max OID 10
Last Run Statistics Time:7.3509 Method:spine Processes:2 Threads:5 Hosts:15 HostsPerProcess:8 DataSources:234 RRDsProcessed:155
PHP Information
PHP Version 5.1.6
PHP OS Linux
PHP uname Linux nms0.site.local 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 5 07:41:53 EDT 2008 i686
PHP SNMP Installed
max_execution_time 60
memory_limit 128M
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WIN SNMP is somewhat slow. Please increase timeout value and retry
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changed the snmp timeout to 1000ms, works again. thanks!
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