Error when trying to create a data source for a Cisco router

firozrangwala · Post by **firozrangwala** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 4:05 pm

I am running Cacti .86c on a Windows XP Pro SP2 box with PHP 5.0x, apache2, net-snmp and rrdtools (the latest version).

I was able to create the data source and graphs for one Cisco router without any problems.

When I try to create the data source for another Cisco router, I see the data source reference within Caci with all the references listed, but no .rrd file for the Cisco router in the rra directory.

Debug on produces the following output:

Data Source Debug

c:/rrdtool/rrdtool.exe create \
C:\Apache2\htdocs\cacti/rra/tnw_qwest_router_traffic_in_34.rrd \
--step 300 \
DS:errors_out:COUNTER:600:0:10000000 \
DS:discards_out:COUNTER:600:0:10000000 \
DS:discards_in:COUNTER:600:0:10000000 \
DS:errors_in:COUNTER:600:0:10000000 \
DS:traffic_out:COUNTER:600:0:100000000 \
DS:traffic_in:COUNTER:600:0:100000000 \
DS:traffic_out:COUNTER:600:0:100000000 \
DS:traffic_in:COUNTER:600:0:100000000 \
RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:600 \
RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:700 \
RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:775 \
RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:797 \
RRA:MAX:0.5:1:600 \
RRA:MAX:0.5:6:700 \
RRA:MAX:0.5:24:775 \
RRA:MAX:0.5:288:797 \

I am running poller.php on a 5 minute schedule. However, when I switch over to the cacti binary, the poller hangs with a Waiting on poller message.

What am I missing or overlooking?

Brashquido · Post by **Brashquido** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 4:11 pm

What's in your cacti log in system utilities?

firozrangwala · Post by **firozrangwala** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:30 pm

I've attached the cacti error log

Brashquido · Post by **Brashquido** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:37 pm

Hmm, I've got almost the exact opposite problem to you. On my test machine if I set my poller to cmd.php then I get the waiting for poller message. Cactid seems to work fine however. What version of Cactid are you using?

firozrangwala · Post by **firozrangwala** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:47 pm

0.8.6c

Brashquido · Post by **Brashquido** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:55 pm

I'm using 0.8.6d which corrected a few issues for me as I'm using Turck. Try alternating the poller between cmd.php and cactid in your cacti settings, and set your poller logging level to high.

firozrangwala · Post by **firozrangwala** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:00 pm

Where can I lay my hands on .86d?

The only stable version I was able to lay my hands on was .8.6c.

Brashquido · Post by **Brashquido** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:03 pm

From the cacti home page at www.cacti.net

Have a look at the news postings in the bottom righ hand corner of the screen.

firozrangwala · Post by **firozrangwala** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:23 pm

I don't know if that will help fix the problem I'm having with rrd files not being created...

Post by **TheWitness** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:26 pm

firozrangwala,

Your issue is with duplicate data sources I think. What Data Query are you using? It does not appear to be standard. Also, how did you get/create it.

Thanks in advance,

TheWitness

DS:traffic_out:COUNTER:600:0:100000000 \
DS:traffic_in:COUNTER:600:0:100000000 \
DS:traffic_out:COUNTER:600:0:100000000 \
DS:traffic_in:COUNTER:600:0:100000000 \

Post by **TheWitness** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:27 pm

Did you import the template. Please attach to message. Thanks...

Brashquido · Post by **Brashquido** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:32 pm

Is the problem of no rdd files in the rra directory only happening when using cactid, or is it happening when using cmd.php also?

I notice this in your cacti log when executing in cmd.php mode;

Either there are no items in the cache or polling is disabled

From my experience this happens when one or more of the data or graph templates is getting unexpected data. It looks as if your Cisco router is returning SNMP values correctly, so I'd expect that it is in cacti somewhere that needs attention. What I do when this happens is remove all graphs for the device, then add one at a time until I find the problem.

firozrangwala · Post by **firozrangwala** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:36 pm

Thanks for the support...

I did not import any templates...

I created my data sources using the device...create...cisco router option.

I was able to create the first device without any problems...device, data source, graphs...the whole works.

When i started working on the second device, i was able to create the device and pull up all the interfaces, but i had partial success in creating the data source for it. I had intermittent success with creating the cpu ds and graph. I've been intermittently successful with creating the DS for traffic on the serial and ethernet interface, but no graphs for the traffic. So I ended up deleting the traffic DS for the serial and Ethernet interface.

When I ran php-cgi from the command prompt after deleting the ds, it popped up an error for duplicate DS. However, the DS does not exist. Nor was the rrd ever created...

firozrangwala · Post by **firozrangwala** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:37 pm

I've done this several times as well.

Post by **TheWitness** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:41 pm

Do you have an instant messanger application, are you prepared to interactively debug this issue.

TheWitness

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