running weathemap from CLI ?

[anandks]

Hi:

I am trying to run weathermap from CLI outside of cacti, when I am still tweaking my config files. But, it does not seem to work. This is the command I use.

php /var/www/cacti/plugins/weathermap/weathermap --debug --config /var/www/cacti/plugins/weathermap/configs/wx.conf --output /var/www/cacti/plugins/weathermap/output/wx.png --
htmloutput /var/www/cacti/plugins/weathermap/output/wx.html

But, neither .html nor .png file gets created. I have to wait for the cacti poller to run every 5 min for me to see the changes to config file I made.

what am I doing wrong ?

Thanks

[Howie]

Do you get an error message? What user are you running as and which user owns the output directory?

(also, the way I do this is: even though I'm not editing in the editor, I use it as a live preview. Edit as you are now, but also load the map into the web-based editor. After any change, click the "Do Nothing" button at the bottom, and the map will update with your change, as a "live" preview)

[anandks]

Howie:

thank you for the response, I am currently testing this out as root, and the directory permissions are checked. Ok, I will try your suggestion. My final intent is to pepare some maps, that is outside of the cacti environment. So, I will not be using the cacti interface.

This used to work a year+ ago, as I had made shell scripts that would get me what I wanted. Somehow, something changed from then to now, I don't get anything nor any error
below is a simple session

#
[root]# more weathermap.conf
#
# A minimal config file to get you started.
# - see also the docs/example folder.
# - and configs/simple.conf

HTMLSTYLE overlib
WIDTH 800
HEIGHT 600

#HTMLOUTPUTFILE /tmp/weathermap.html
#IMAGEOUTPUTFILE /tmp/weathermap.png

NODE node1
POSITION 200 200
LABEL node1

NODE node2
POSITION 500 200
LABEL node2

LINK firstlink
NODES node1 node2
BANDWIDTH 30M

[root]# php /var/www/cacti/plugins/weathermap/weathermap --debug --config /var/www/cacti/plugins/weathermap/weathermap.conf --output /tmp/test.png --htmloutput /tmp/test.html
[root]# ls -l /tmp/test.*
ls: cannot access /tmp/test.*: No such file or directory

[Howie]

What's your current directory when you run it? I'm wondering if something has relative paths from the weathermap main directory... I would expect to see error messages then, though!

[anandks]

CWD/ contains weathermap and weathermap.conf

I am running the command from /var/www/cacti/plugins/weathermap

yes, Agree. I am not seeing any debug messages, whereas weathermap run from cacti poller works perfectly fine.

[Howie]

Not sure where to go further with this... what OS, weathermap, Php version etc is it, so that I can try to recreate?

It's not a general issue - I use the CLI weathermap very regularly.

[anandks]

RHEL 6.8

odd, it does not even spit out the help menu when weathermap is invoked with --help switch.