Need some very basic help - ping/latency

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Grimnar
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Need some very basic help - ping/latency

Post by Grimnar »

So this is some very basic stuff I need some help with. But I cannot for the life of me figure how I can add several "latency graphs"

I created a tree branch called latency, and I need several devices on my lan to be added here so I can check the latency on every device.
For about a week now I got one graph working, and was pinging a opendns server. So I figured I just could duplicate that script or whatever it was and change the ip adress and name. But that was not the case. So I ended up accidentaly (sp?) deleting it all again.

So how can I make several latency graphs on my lan? Everything is pinged from 192.168.0.1.

Ps, Running the latest tarball on a debian system, with PIA support.
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Re: Need some very basic help - ping/latency

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When pinging from the cacti server, you amy use the provided ping script, or, better, the Advanced Ping Template posted in the Scripts and Templates forum.
In case the ping is run from a different device, you will have to code a script which is able to access that very data on the remote pinging system
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Re: Need some very basic help - ping/latency

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The easiest way would be to create one "Device" in Cacti per host you want to ping. Then, use the "Unix - Ping Latency" graph template to ping each particular host. This is exactly what I have done here - http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?p=229079#p229079 . Following my instructions will get you the middle (yellow) graph.
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