Cacti doesn't create graphs

[luumanio]

Hi,

I'm Linux/Cacti beginner and I've just installed and configured Cacti 0.8.7i on Ubuntu Server 11.10. All looks good, I can access Cacti control panel, all devices are connected via SNMP and Cacti status shows UP on all of my devices, however Cacti doesn't create graphs for it.

I read here http://www.cacti.net/downloads/docs/htm ... ml#AEN2499 that there might be some problems with permissions. I run the ls -al rra/ command in /var/www/cacti directory and I get following results:

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total 536
drwxrwxrwx  2 root          root            4096 2012-02-20 18:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root          root            4096 2012-02-20 12:52 ..
-rw-rw-r--  1 administrator administrator  94824 2012-02-20 19:10 cisco_881_traffic_in_8.rrd
-rw-rw-r--  1 administrator administrator  94824 2012-02-20 19:10 cisco_881_traffic_in_9.rrd
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root          root              33 2012-02-20 12:52 .htaccess
-rw-rw-r--  1 administrator administrator 141648 2012-02-20 19:10 localhost_load_1min_5.rrd
-rw-rw-r--  1 administrator administrator  48000 2012-02-20 19:10 localhost_mem_buffers_3.rrd
-rw-rw-r--  1 administrator administrator  48000 2012-02-20 19:10 localhost_mem_swap_4.rrd
-rw-rw-r--  1 administrator administrator  48000 2012-02-20 19:10 localhost_proc_7.rrd
-rw-rw-r--  1 administrator administrator  48000 2012-02-20 19:10 localhost_users_6.rrd

I'm nor really sure if I have the right permissions for it. I have created DB (cacti) with default Cacti user name: cactiuser and password.

Do I have to amend the permissions for the rra directory in that case, if yes how can I do it, I mean change the permission from administrator to cactiuser.

Regards,
Luu Manio

[gandalf]

The DB user "cactiuser" and the OS user "cactiuser" are two completeyl seperated identities. You are using "administrator" as the OS user which is perfectly fine assuming that you applied all permissions to that user and are running the poller from crontab as "administrator" as well.
See 1st link of my sig for more installation instructions
R.