Compile cactid 0.8.6c

[laffen]

Hi,

I have problems compiling cactid 0.8.6c, make exits like this:
...
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./config -I/usr/include/ucd-snmp -I/usr/include/ucd-snmp/.. -I/usr/include/mysql -g -O2 -c `test -f 'php.c' || echo './'`php.c
gcc -I/usr/include/ucd-snmp -I/usr/include/ucd-snmp/.. -I/usr/include/mysql -g -O2 -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -o cactid sql.o cactid.o util.o snmp.o locks.o poller.o nft_popen.o php.o -lsnmp -lcrypto -lmysqlclient -lz -lpthread -lm -lnsl
poller.o(.text+0x13f): In function `poll_host':
/usr/src/cacti-cactid-0.8.6c/poller.c:99: undefined reference to `mysql_thread_init'
poller.o(.text+0xeca):/usr/src/cacti-cactid-0.8.6c/poller.c:392: undefined reference to `mysql_thread_end'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [cactid] Error 1

System is Debian Linux - testing, mysql 4.0.22 and php 4.3.10. Earlier cactid has compiled without any problems.

[TheWitness]

My bad. Please download the poller.c file from the following location. Then remake. Will solve you problem.

TheWitness

http://cvs.cacti.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cg ... _6#dirlist

[laffen]

My bad. Please download the poller.c file from the following location. Then remake. Will solve you problem.

TheWitness

http://cvs.cacti.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cg ... _6#dirlist

Thanks! Compiled straight away.

[Anthony]

Hello !

I had the same problem and I just did the same thing (compile 0.8.6c with last version of poller.c from the link you gave) and I get this error :

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./config -I/usr/local/include/net-snmp -I/usr/local/include/net-snmp/.. -I/usr/include/mysql -g -O2 -c `test -f 'poller.c' || echo './'`poller.c
poller.c: In function `poll_host':
poller.c:130: structure has no member named `snmpv3_auth_username'
poller.c:130: structure has no member named `snmpv3_auth_username'
poller.c:131: structure has no member named `snmpv3_auth_password'
poller.c:131: structure has no member named `snmpv3_auth_password'
poller.c:132: structure has no member named `snmpv3_auth_protocol'
poller.c:132: structure has no member named `snmpv3_auth_protocol'
poller.c:133: structure has no member named `snmpv3_priv_passphrase'
poller.c:133: structure has no member named `snmpv3_priv_passphrase'
poller.c:134: structure has no member named `snmpv3_priv_protocol'
poller.c:134: structure has no member named `snmpv3_priv_protocol'
poller.c:137: structure has no member named `availability_method'
poller.c:138: structure has no member named `ping_method'
poller.c:160: structure has no member named `availability_method'
poller.c:161: structure has no member named `availability_method'
poller.c:161: `AVAIL_NONE' undeclared (first use in this function)
poller.c:161: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
poller.c:161: for each function it appears in.)
poller.c:162: structure has no member named `availability_method'
poller.c:170: structure has no member named `availability_method'
poller.c:173: structure has no member named `availability_method'
poller.c:294: structure has no member named `snmpv3_auth_username'
poller.c:294: structure has no member named `snmpv3_auth_username'
poller.c:295: structure has no member named `snmpv3_auth_password'
poller.c:295: structure has no member named `snmpv3_auth_password'
poller.c:296: structure has no member named `snmpv3_auth_protocol'
poller.c:296: structure has no member named `snmpv3_auth_protocol'
poller.c:297: structure has no member named `snmpv3_priv_passphrase'
poller.c:297: structure has no member named `snmpv3_priv_passphrase'
poller.c:298: structure has no member named `snmpv3_priv_protocol'
poller.c:298: structure has no member named `snmpv3_priv_protocol'
poller.c:301: structure has no member named `availability_method'
poller.c:302: structure has no member named `ping_method'
poller.c: In function `exec_poll':
poller.c:497: structure has no member named `max_script_runtime'
make: *** [poller.o] Error 1

What can I do to resolve this ?
The poller.c is version 1.72.2.4

Thank you for your help

[monideth]

Hi

I had the same problem.

however, the problem was resolved when I downloaded the poller.c code from the following link:

http://cvs.cacti.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cg ... ANCH_0_8_6

("Revision 1.72.2.4 / (view) - annotate - [select for diffs] , Mon Dec 20 02:27:45 2004 UTC (3 weeks, 2 days ago) by thewitness") - view link.

I had the problem when I downloaded the poller.c file from the following link:

http://cvs.cacti.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cg ... text/plain

i.e. I downloaded the "Bookmark a link to: HEAD / (download)" link

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Mon

[TheWitness]

We have plans on re-releasing Cactid 0.8.6c. There was a mixup that caused 0.8.7 code to make it into 0.8.6c. It's a bumber.

[Wyvern]

We have plans on re-releasing Cactid 0.8.6c. There was a mixup that caused 0.8.7 code to make it into 0.8.6c. It's a bumber.

Damn, because I am having problems running cactid, in that the process runs, but does not update the rrd files.

Now cacti has the correct path to rrdtool installed in it's settings -> path. I have turned the logging for the poller to debug and I can't see why it's not updating the rrd files.

Here is a snippet of the process as it runs.

[root@monitor bin]# ./cactid | more
CACTID: Using cactid config file [cactid.conf]
CACTID: DEBUG: The path_php_server variable is /var/www/cacti/script_server.php
CACTID: DEBUG: The path_cactilog variable is /var/www/cacti/log/cacti.log
CACTID: DEBUG: The log_destination variable is 1
CACTID: DEBUG: The path_php variable is /usr/bin/php
CACTID: DEBUG: The availability_method variable is 2
CACTID: DEBUG: The ping_recovery_count variable is 3
CACTID: DEBUG: The ping_failure_count variable is 2
CACTID: Non Window envrionment, running as root, ICMP Ping available
CACTID: DEBUG: The ping_method variable is 2
CACTID: DEBUG: The ping_retries variable is 1
CACTID: DEBUG: The ping_timeout variable is 400
CACTID: DEBUG: The log_perror variable is 1
CACTID: DEBUG: The log_pwarn variable is 1
CACTID: DEBUG: The log_pstats variable is 1
CACTID: DEBUG: The threads variable is 5
CACTID: CACTID: Version 0.8.6c starting
CACTID: MYSQL: Connecting to MySQL database 'cacti' on 'localhost'...
CACTID: DEBUG: PHP Script Server Routine Started
CACTID: DEBUG: PHP Script Server About to FORK Child Process
CACTID: DEBUG: PHP Script Server Child FORK Success
CACTID: DEBUG: Confirmed PHP Script Server Running
CACTID: DEBUG: Initial Value of Active Threads is 0
CACTID: DEBUG: Valid Thread to be Created
CACTID: DEBUG: The Value of Active Threads is 1
CACTID: DEBUG: In Poller, About to Start Polling of Host
CACTID: MYSQL: Connecting to MySQL database 'cacti' on 'localhost'...
CACTID: Host[1] SNMP Result: Host does not require SNMP
CACTID: DEBUG: SQLCMD: update host set status='3',status_event_count='0', status_fail_date='0000-00-00 00:00:00',status_rec_date='2005-01-12 05:59:00',status
_last_error='Ping not performed due to setting.',min_time='0.000000',max_time='0.000000',cur_time='0.000000',avg_time='0.000000',total_polls='4047',failed_po
lls='6',availability='99.0000' where id='1'

CACTID: Host[1] DEBUG: The POPEN returned the following File Descriptor 9
CACTID: Host[1] SCRIPT: perl /var/www/cacti/scripts/loadavg_multi.pl, output: 1min:0.54 5min:0.35 10min:0.31
CACTID: DEBUG: SQLCMD: insert into poller_output (local_data_id,rrd_name,time,output) values (5,'','2005-01-13 09:20:29','1min:0.54 5min:0.35 10min:0.31')
CACTID: Host[1] DEBUG: The POPEN returned the following File Descriptor 9
CACTID: Host[1] SCRIPT: perl /var/www/cacti/scripts/linux_memory.pl MemFree:, output: 107780
CACTID: DEBUG: SQLCMD: insert into poller_output (local_data_id,rrd_name,time,output) values (3,'mem_buffers','2005-01-13 09:20:29','107780')
CACTID: Host[1] DEBUG: The POPEN returned the following File Descriptor 9
CACTID: Host[1] SCRIPT: perl /var/www/cacti/scripts/linux_memory.pl SwapFree:, output: 1011316
CACTID: DEBUG: SQLCMD: insert into poller_output (local_data_id,rrd_name,time,output) values (4,'mem_swap','2005-01-13 09:20:29','1011316')
CACTID: Host[1] DEBUG: The POPEN returned the following File Descriptor 9
CACTID: Host[1] SCRIPT: perl /var/www/cacti/scripts/unix_processes.pl, output: 62
CACTID: DEBUG: SQLCMD: insert into poller_output (local_data_id,rrd_name,time,output) values (7,'proc','2005-01-13 09:20:29','62')
CACTID: Host[1] DEBUG: The POPEN returned the following File Descriptor 9
CACTID: Host[1] SCRIPT: perl /var/www/cacti/scripts/unix_users.pl, output: 1
CACTID: DEBUG: SQLCMD: insert into poller_output (local_data_id,rrd_name,time,output) values (6,'users','2005-01-13 09:20:29','1')
CACTID: Host[1] DEBUG: HOST COMPLETE: About to Exit Host Polling Thread Function
CACTID: DEBUG: Valid Thread to be Created
CACTID: DEBUG: The Value of Active Threads is 2
CACTID: DEBUG: In Poller, About to Start Polling of Host
CACTID: MYSQL: Connecting to MySQL database 'cacti' on 'localhost'...
CACTID: Host[2] SNMP Result: Host responded to SNMP
CACTID: DEBUG: SQLCMD: update host set status='3',status_event_count='0', status_fail_date='2005-01-12 06:55:00',status_rec_date='2005-01-12 06:40:00',status
_last_error='Host did not respond to SNMP',min_time='1.841070',max_time='999.999990',cur_time='2.611160',avg_time='89.432224',total_polls='4047',failed_polls
='9',availability='99.0000' where id='2'

any idea's?

Cheers,
Warrick

[TheWitness]

Cactid does not update RRD files in 0.8.6x. Poller.php does. Poller.php call's either cmd.php or cactid based upon setting.

TheWitness

[Wyvern]

Cactid does not update RRD files in 0.8.6x. Poller.php does. Poller.php call's either cmd.php or cactid based upon setting.

TheWitness

Okay, I am not quite sure where I have gone wrong then. Here is what I have configured in the Cacti web interface Settings -> Poller

Poller is enabled
Poller type is cactid
Maximum Concurrent Poller Processes 1
Maximum Threads per Process 5

And every five minutes in cron it runs

*/5 * * * * cd /var/www/cacti/bin ; ./cactid > /dev/null 2>&1

so where am I going wrong then? What other process do I have to call to get it to create the graphs?

Cheers,
Warrick

[Wyvern]

Cactid does not update RRD files in 0.8.6x. Poller.php does. Poller.php call's either cmd.php or cactid based upon setting.

TheWitness

Okay, I am not quite sure where I have gone wrong then. Here is what I have configured in the Cacti web interface Settings -> Poller

Poller is enabled
Poller type is cactid
Maximum Concurrent Poller Processes 1
Maximum Threads per Process 5

And every five minutes in cron it runs

*/5 * * * * cd /var/www/cacti/bin ; ./cactid > /dev/null 2>&1

so where am I going wrong then? What other process do I have to call to get it to create the graphs?

Cheers,
Warrick

My bad, didn't notice the change to using poller.php from the old version I was running. My apologies.

I have since changed it to

*/5 * * * * php /var/www/cacti/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1

but still don't get rrd files.

Sorry,
Warrick

[TheWitness]

Please run poller.php from the command line on time with logging set to DEBUG. Post your output.

TheWitness

[Wyvern]

Please run poller.php from the command line on time with logging set to DEBUG. Post your output.

TheWitness

It's now working, but I had to remove the cacti database, and restart it from scratch, but it is now polling with cactid and creating rrd files.

Thanks for your help tho!
Cheers,
Warrick

[bdbrumm]

I'm having a similar issue with cactid -- it seems to skip the SNMP-based hosts and seems to only execute the scripts. I've validated this by swapping back and forth between poller types (cactid vs. cmd.php). cmd.php always runs correctly. I'm building a new system and need to poll quite a few hosts and desire the speed from cactid. I ran cactid from the command line with debug level set on. I've attached the output as a file. I've also included the rra directory listing showing that the rra's are skipped.
Also, I noted that after 2 poll cycles, using only snmp as an uptime/availability indicator, that the snmp devices are marked as down in the device list. Running cmd.php from the command line a couple times restores them and this is expected behavior.
Having the hosts marked down though seems to indicate that the SNMP queries in cactid are failing somehow; I don't know how to further validate this. Please advise and I can test further.

[rony]

What version of NET-SNMP are you running?

[bdbrumm]

net-snmp-5.2.1.rc2

cacti-0.8.6c
cacti-cactid-0.8.6c
httpd-2.0.52
mysql-4.1.8a
php-4.3.10
rrdtool-1.0.48

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