Does cactid require a cron or scheduler entry

benhanson · Post by **benhanson** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 7:48 pm

The documentation doesn't seem to be quite clear here. If I'm using cactid as my poller, should my cron/scheduler job be changed from poller.php to cactid? This might seem obvious, but the cactid docs make no reference to changing scheduled jobs, just "After completing these steps, Cacti will spawn Cactid every 5 minutes instead of cmd.php"

So does the web server just magically spawn cactid?

benhanson · Post by **benhanson** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 7:52 pm

Just read through poller.php, it's quite clear now. poller.php is querying for poller type then executing cactid or cmd.php. I'll leave my semi-damaged question here so someone else won't feel so idiotic.

Post by **rony** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:50 am

It's an ok question...

incite-ict · Post by **incite-ict** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:40 pm

i was having big problems with poller.php and cmd.php so i just disabled them from crontab and all that and added cactid to the cron. it all seems to work fine now...is that a bad idea or not?

Post by **rony** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:26 pm

Depends, what version are you running. 0.8.6x requires that you run poller.php, and it will spawn you configured poller, cmd.php or cactid.

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Does cactid require a cron or scheduler entry

Does cactid require a cron or scheduler entry

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