Installation nmidSmokeping PLUGIN

[artiflo]

In nmidSmokeping 1.06 doesn't work for me.

That is because I have "..cgi" instead of ".cgi" in this part (getSmokePingImage.php):

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if ( preg_match("/(http:.*)\/cgi-bin\/smokeping\..cgi.*/i",$url,$matches) ) {
    $mainServer = $matches[1];
} elseif ( preg_match("/(http:.*)\/smokeping\..cgi.*/i",$url,$matches) ) {
    $mainServer = $matches[1];
}

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if ( preg_match("/(http:.*)\/cgi-bin\/smokeping\.cgi.*/i",$url,$matches) ) {
    $mainServer = $matches[1];
} elseif ( preg_match("/(http:.*)\/smokeping\.cgi.*/i",$url,$matches) ) {
    $mainServer = $matches[1];
}

That solve my issue.

[phalek]

odd, the \..cgi in regexp normally matches both

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.cgi
.fcgi

the . is translated to "matches any character (including no character at all)" ...

[thoms27]

Hello,

I installed this plugin, but no graph appear under cacti. The graph appear correctly when I click on the Icon for SmokePing web page.

I have an error in the log of apache:

[Wed Jun 20 12:06:06 2012] [error] [client X.X.X.X] [Wed Jun 20 12:06:06 2012] smokeping.cgi [client X.X.X.X]: ERROR: Section '\xbc\x93\x96\x9a\x91\x8b\xa0\xce\xd1\xac\x96\x8b\x9a\xa0\xce' does not exist (display webpage). at /usr/share/smokeping/lib/Smokeping.pm line 1557.

Cacti Version 0.8.8a
nmidSmokeping_v1.06

Have you got an idea ?
Could you help me please ?

Best regards

Thomas

[DangerDevil]

Hello,
same issues with same cacti and smokeping version.
The link works, the graph inside cacti not.
Tried different settings for the plugin, but seems a deeper problem.
The error message is the same on my installation.

Hello,

I installed this plugin, but no graph appear under cacti. The graph appear correctly when I click on the Icon for SmokePing web page.

I have an error in the log of apache:

[Wed Jun 20 12:06:06 2012] [error] [client X.X.X.X] [Wed Jun 20 12:06:06 2012] smokeping.cgi [client X.X.X.X]: ERROR: Section '\xbc\x93\x96\x9a\x91\x8b\xa0\xce\xd1\xac\x96\x8b\x9a\xa0\xce' does not exist (display webpage). at /usr/share/smokeping/lib/Smokeping.pm line 1557.

Cacti Version 0.8.8a
nmidSmokeping_v1.06

Have you got an idea ?
Could you help me please ?

Best regards

Thomas

[phalek]

Hi Can you send me your smokeping config file which you've created to support@urban-software.de ?

[DangerDevil]

Some more information:
I set up the smokeping on Centos 6.3 with this howto:

http://ai.net.nz/gettinghelp/how-do-i/c ... eping.html

In this howto the imagepath was changed from "cache" to "img".
I configure it back to "cache", but no luck.

Kind regards
Oliver

[phalek]

We solved the issue, which happened to be a "non-standard" URL in the form:

http://server/smokeping/smokeping.fcgi

In case you do have similiar issues, make sure your URL either matches:


http://server/smokeping/smokeping.[f]cgi
http://server/cgi-bin/smokeping.[f]cgi
or
http://server/smokeping.[f]cgi

Version 1.07 makes sure to handle the first one as well. As usual you can download it from here:

http://redmine.nmid-plugins.de/projects ... ping/files

[phalek]

... and version 1.09 fixes a small typo which prevented the overview graph mode to work properly.


http://redmine.nmid-plugins.de/projects ... ping/files

[pier62350]

Hi all,

I've a problem with the 1.09 version: when I add a device from cacti with "Add to Smokeping (http://smokepingurl)", the device is added to the "smokeping_nmid_spserver1_config.txt" but not in the "config" file of smokeping.
I need to include the smokeping_nmid_spserver1_config.txt fils in it?

Read/write right are the same on smokeping_nmid_spserver1_config.txt and config and they are in the same folder. I'm using smokeping.cgi (fcgi didn't work on my apache server).

Can you tell me how I can add the devices to the "config" file?

[phalek]

Did you read the very 2nd post of this topic ? It is explained in there.

[pier62350]

I've read it but I don't understand how to create this "config.header".

I've to rename the config file in config.header, include config.header in the top of the txt file and define the smokeping config file as "/path/to/smokeping_nmid_spserver1_config.txt" ?

[phalek]

Look at the example of such a "config.header" file in the 2nd post.

basically, you have that file and just add the content of the smokeping_nmid_spserver1_config.txt file to the end of this.

To get the complete smokeping config you can do the following ( In this example the final smokping config is in /opt/smokeping/etc )

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cat /opt/smokeping/etc/config.header > /opt/smokeping/etc/config
cat /tmp/smokeping_nmid_spserver1_config.txt >> /opt/smokeping/etc/config

[pier62350]

thanks for this help!

Just a last question: do you think I can automatize this action when I add a new host in smokeping from the cacti device interface (in order to be more easy and user-friendly)?

I can create a shell and execute it with crond but it will be beter if I update the config file only when a device is added or deleted?

[julian924s]

Hi - I've encountered an issue with this plugin since updating both Cacti + nmidsmokeping. I'm running Cacti 0.8.8a and 1.09 of the smokeping plugin. I used the Plugin Management tab to disable / uninstall the previous version (1.05) before installing the latest version. I also used the "Remove device from smokeping config" option on ALL devices and checked the DB values for the hosts to ensure all the old settings had been removed.

I've added a single device and checked the nmid specific DB settings and they look ok:

nwmgmt_settings: s1000000000
nwmgmt_smokeping_path: LIVE.NETWORKS.Foundry_SI_1
nwmgmt_smokeping_server: http://tdukwbvmcacti01
nwmgmt_smokeping_probe:

If I view the device in Cacti I get a broken image icon for the smokeping graph - ie, it's not displayed with the other various device graphs. If I click the magnifying glass link the smokeping graphs appear in a new tab. If I click the broken image it also takes me to the smokeping graphs - so apart from the smokeping graph not actually appearing with the other Cacti graphs it appears to be working - does anyone know the solution to this? When I previously had this problem it was down to the fact that the php curl module was not installed, but I've checked the output of php -m and it's there.

Thanks - J.

[hacktivism]

Cacti Version:

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Result (already Discussed throughout):

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I've already followed all suggest tips and tricks throughout this topic witn no success.

Can You please advise.