Ping script failing

[acenet]

Hi,

I am running a modified ping script on Win2k. The script runs fine from the command line, but the Cacti log reports the following error:

11/02/2004 08:40:06 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[0] CMD: perl C:\Apache2\htdocs\cacti86/scripts/ping3.pl 2 www.apple.com, output: U
11/02/2004 08:40:06 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[0] WARNING: Result from CMD not valid. Partial Result: min:50 avg: 55

I have set the Data Input Method to have min and avg as output fields. I do not see where the issue lies.

Cacti 0.8.6a
Perl 5.8
PHP 4.3.7


Thanks,

brian

[TheWitness]

Brian,

Note the following:

min:50 avg: 55

Get rid of the space between "avg:" and the result "55" on the script output and you will be all set.

TheWitness

[acenet]

Thanks for the reply. I have taken a look at that as it displays fine when run from the command line. Here is the script

#!/usr/bin/perl

$host = $ARGV[1];
$pingcount = $ARGV[0];

$ping = `ping -n $pingcount $host`;

# starts some variables

$min;
$max;
$avg;
$loss;

# check for the minimum value

$ping =~ /Minimum = (\d*)/;
$min = $1;

# check for the maximum value

$ping =~ /Maximum = (.*)ms,/;
$max = $1;

# check for the average value

$ping =~ /(Averag|Gemiddeld)e = (.*)ms/;
$avg = $2;

# check for the % sign inside parens and grab it's value
$ping =~ /(\d*)%/;
$loss = $1;

#print the values
print "min:$min avg:$avg";

Thanks for the help!

[acenet]

The Witness,

Thanks again for the pointer. I got a friend of mine to modify the script and now it works fine. I just need to tweak the graphs now.

Cacti is a great program. Keep up the great work!

brian

[Droidex]

I am trying to do the same!
Thanx!

[edizzle]

You can force that variable into a number to remove the whitespace from the beginning of it, just add a +0 to the $avg line

$ping =~ /(Averag|Gemiddeld)e = (.*)ms/;
$avg = $2+0;

Thanks for posting!