Alerting oh THOLD for specific hours of specific days

[xq1xq1xq1]

I am quite new to cacti - please excuse me if this is a dumb question.

I have a case where I only care if the interface bandwidth falls below a threshold for 3 hours on a specific day.

I have seen a way to ignore weekend alerts.

Any ideas as to how to only have a THOLD alert sent if the THOLD threshold event occurs within a specific hour range on a specific day?

[cigamit]

You can sort of accomplish this with the maintenance plugin, but the problem would be that it is applied to every threshold on a specific device, not per threshold.

[xq1xq1xq1]

I am okay with the entire device being subjected to the same THOLD Alerting window.

Any suggestions as to how to set this up would be much appreciated!

[cigamit]

You will want this plugin.
http://svn.cacti.net/viewvc/maint/trunk/?root=Plugins
Just create a directory called "maint" under plugins, and throw those files in there. Then install the plugins ui inside of Cacti.

[xq1xq1xq1]

Cool I will give it a try and let you know

Thanx so much!

[xq1xq1xq1]

Hit a snag:

I copied the files into a new folder maint under plugins but when I go to plugin settings I get the dialog in the attached file.

It looks like it is trying to execute setup.php but something is amiss

Any guidance appreciated!

Running: Version 0.8.8h on Centos 6.7

[cigamit]

Open setup.php and paste the first few lines. I am betting you copied the websvn display page instead of the code itself. For each of the files, you should have clicked on the download link.

[xq1xq1xq1]

I guess I don't quite understand what the link was that you had sent me - I found another download site - https://github.com/Cacti/plugin_maint

This appears to work - however selinux made everything go south until I did a relabel

When I went looking to find help on using the MAINT plugin the readme file said:

----[ Installation

To install the plugin, please refer to the Plugin Installation Documentation

This may be a dense question but I have been unable to find the Plugin Installation/Usage documentation - I looked in the various threshold and device webpages in cacti but did not see anything that resembled time of day alerting.

Help

[cigamit]

The github version of Maint will not work with your current version. It is for Cacti v1.0 only.

[xq1xq1xq1]

Okay - I did not find it intuitive to click the download link then do a file save as from the web page - but it worked - I guess live and learn

Thanx for the patience

[xq1xq1xq1]

Now the maintenance menu shows up.

I created a new schedule and associated the device that I want to monitored for specific days and times into this schedule.

The device shows up as associated into current list

showing that the device is associated with the current list

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But when I select the associated box no devices are listed.

showing no devices are listed that are associated with the schedule.

associated-maint-devices-list.jpg (47.15 KiB) Viewed 4698 times

Is my device actually part of the schedule or do I have to do something else to associate/activate the device into the schedule?

If the device is configured correctly then why don't I see it in the associated list?

Sorry if I am being dense - but this is new to me.

[xq1xq1xq1]

I am no longer able to associate a device to this schedule:

Device-Configuration-Maintenance-Schedule

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As my brain appears to have died - any guidance is appreciated!

[cigamit]

Uncheck the "Associated" filter. You have it set to only show ones that are currently associated with the schedule already.

[Darkys]

Hi, pls help... I cant see Maint in the Plugin Management menu

Cacti Version: 0.8.8a, Plugin Architecture Version: 3.1

I put mensioned files via instructions and nothing...

Thank you