Cacti Ping frequency

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Cacti Ping frequency

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Dear all,

Is there any way to increase the Ping frequency to 1 minute?

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Re: Cacti Ping frequency

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There is. But as script execution is done synchronously, this will block out the poller quite soon. So this is not recommended.
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Re: Cacti Ping frequency

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gandalf wrote:There is. But as script execution is done synchronously, this will block out the poller quite soon. So this is not recommended.
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Hi gandalf, thanks for your reply.
Could you give me some guideline on how to configure it?
and, what does it mean "...this will block out the poller quite soon" ?

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Ok, perhaps I misunderstood. Do you want to extend the timeout to 1 minute or do you want to execute the ping evey minute?
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Re: Cacti Ping frequency

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gandalf wrote:Ok, perhaps I misunderstood. Do you want to extend the timeout to 1 minute or do you want to execute the ping evey minute?
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Hi,

Sorry.. I mean could I do some configuration, so that it can execute the ping every minute.

THANKS!
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You only are able to change frequency of "things" by changing the poller interval. This is the only regular action that is started by Cacti.
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gandalf wrote:You only are able to change frequency of "things" by changing the poller interval. This is the only regular action that is started by Cacti.
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Hi, gandalf,

So, is that no way to increase the ping frequency only instead of poll frequency?
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Yes
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gandalf wrote:Yes
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Hi gandalf, thanks for your reply.

So, how can we do it?
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You can't. At least to my knowledge
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