Definition of "poller"[Solved]

spz · Post by **spz** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 5:55 am

Hello

I would like to know the definition of poller in Cacti ?

Thank you.

Post by **Linegod** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:48 am

The poller is the script or program that talks to the devices to collect their information.

There are two pollers. A php script (cmd.php) and a C program (spine). The cmd.php poller comes with the default installation of Cacti, and the spine poller can be downloaded and compiled separately.

Regardless of which poller you select, it is launched and controlled by the 'poller.php' script, so 'poller.php' is the only thing that is required in your cron or event launcher.

spz · Post by **spz** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 6:39 am

Hi

Thank you of your answer Linegod

Another question, the Spine poller is faster to get back the information than cmd.php ? They are information of which type ?

Thank you

ARC1450 · Post by **ARC1450** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 10:21 am

Spine is faster than CMD.PHP, yes. I don't think it's faster in retrieving the information per se, just faster in processing it.

Both retrieve SNMP information from devices.

Post by **Linegod** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:56 am

Spine will be faster in retrieving the information, if there is a lot of information to get.

spz · Post by **spz** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:36 am

Hi!

Thank you for your answers

It served well me

Regards.
spz

Definition of "poller"[Solved]

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