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victimist
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Hi Guys

I have 150 Virtual Machines that i need to graph (CPU, MEM, NET, DISK). The script i have which pulls stats must be run against the vcenter server to pull stats of the VM.

As Such, i have defined a device called vCenter in devices list within cacti.

the 1st VM i graphed was nice and easy. I went to New Graphs, changed the device to vCenter, ticked all the graph types i wanted (CPU, MEM, NET, DISK), click create and jobs a gooden.

when i came to add the 2nd device, I went to New Graphs, changed the device to vCenter, but all the graph types i wanted were now greyed out ...SO i had to choose 1 graph type (let say VM Disk) within the Create List, click create and jobs a gooden.
i then had to repeat this process of each graph type i want ... So repeat for CPU, MEM, NET

To make it worse ... I have to do this 150 times

Is there any way to get Cacti to make these graph types available on the vCenter Device all the time?

Thanks

vic
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Post by gandalf »

The scripts must take such an issue into account.
The solution is to have a Script Data Query which delivers the wanted set of data per each index, where the index ist the VM in question. This has been described in the documentation at http://docs.cacti.net
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victimist
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Re: New Graph Menu

Post by victimist »

Thanks Gandalf

Do you mean create each VM under devices with the appropriate template then graph each device?

Found http://www.cacti.net/downloads/docs/htm ... evice.html which has helped me add all the Devices.

I am now able to graph each device
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