InfluxDB/Grafana/Bosun + Cacti = CereusTransport - Updated!

[phalek]

geoffg, the plugin does some debug logging when increasing the cacti log settings. It should show what data it found. Did you check this ?

It should be something like

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DEBUG: Adding the following data to INFLUXB ....
DEBUG: Finished adding the data to INFLUXB ....
....

[mapickett77]

Hello,

I seem to be running into similar index_type errors on 0.66.
CereusTransporter version 0.66
Cacti version 1.1.3

2017-04-18 12:20:04 - ERROR PHP NOTICE in Plugin 'CereusTransporter': Undefined index: index_type in file: /var/www/html/cacti-1.1.3/plugins/CereusTransporter/setup.php on line: 179
2017-04-18 12:20:04 - CMDPHP PHP ERROR NOTICE Backtrace: (/poller.php: 717 api_plugin_hook)(/lib/plugins.php: 68 api_plugin_run_plugin_hook)(/lib/plugins.php: 161 CereusTransporter_poller_bottom)(/plugins/CereusTransporter/setup.php: 179 CactiErrorHandler)(/lib/functions.php: 4262 cacti_debug_backtrace)
2017-04-18 12:20:04 - ERROR PHP NOTICE in Plugin 'CereusTransporter': Undefined index: scheme in file: /var/www/html/cacti-1.1.3/plugins/CereusTransporter/vendor/influxdb/influxdb-php/src/InfluxDB/Client.php on line: 256
2017-04-18 12:20:04 - CMDPHP PHP ERROR NOTICE Backtrace: (/poller.php: 717 api_plugin_hook)(/lib/plugins.php: 68 api_plugin_run_plugin_hook)(/lib/plugins.php: 161 CereusTransporter_poller_bottom)(/plugins/CereusTransporter/setup.php: 254 CereusTransporter_send_data)(/plugins/CereusTransporter/setup.php: 83 CereusTransporter_influxdb_send_data)(/plugins/CereusTransporter/includes/influxdb.php: 27 fromDSN)(/plugins/CereusTransporter/vendor/influxdb/influxdb-php/src/InfluxDB/Client.php: 256 CactiErrorHandler)(/lib/functions.php: 4262 cacti_debug_backtrace)
2017-04-18 12:20:04 - CereusTransporter ERROR: is not a valid scheme

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!
McLean

[Axel90]

Hey phalek,

I have a cacti server 0.8.8f and the CereusTransporter Plugin 0.64.

In my opinion, everything is working fine!

The data is exported to the InfluxDB.

my question now:

How can I setup single graphs in grafana: For example the cpu utilization of a specific host?

I read all the posts in this topic, you talked about a manual for that. Are you already done with that?

And is there already a custom dashboard you could share?

Thanks in advance!!

and btw. great work!

[rbarreto]

Hi phalek

First of all, thanks for sharing!

I'm testing this plugin with Cacti / InfluxDB / Grafana.

The data is exported from cacti into influxdb with success and I got some graphs with grafana.

I'd like to know if is there a way to get the total bandwidth in GB/TB used per month from the data exported. From the measurement "interface.traffic" it just has the type: traffic_in and traffic_out.

Thank you

Regards

[michael067]

hi,

I have cacti 1.1.30 and cereustransport 0.66, i have this error :

2018/01/09 14:40:16 - CMDPHP PHP ERROR NOTICE Backtrace: (/poller.php: 722 api_plugin_hook)(/lib/plugins.php: 73 api_plugin_run_plugin_hook)(/lib/plugins.php: 170 CereusTransporter_poller_bottom)(/plugins/CereusTransporter/setup.php: 179 CactiErrorHandler)(/lib/functions.php: 4434 cacti_debug_backtrace)
2018/01/09 14:40:16 - ERROR PHP NOTICE in Plugin 'CereusTransporter': Undefined index: index_type in file: /opt/cacti/plugins/CereusTransporter/setup.php on line: 179

thanks for your help.

Michael

[phalek]

Hi

Try the attached setup.php file

[michael067]

Perfect

Thanks for your fast response.

Michael

[nguyentan1980]

Hi Phalek,

Thanks for sharing.

I got this error message when I install CereusTransport.
2018/01/23 14:36:07 - CereusTransporter INFO: Adding data to influxdb
2018/01/23 14:36:07 - CereusTransporter ERROR: Writing has failed, exception: [curl] 7: Failed connect to 172.17.12.45:8086; Connection refused [url] http://172.17.12.45:8086/write?db=cacti&precision=s
2018/01/23 14:36:07 - CereusTransporter ERROR: Writing has failed, exception: [curl] 7: Failed connect to 172.17.12.45:8086; Connection refused [url] http://172.17.12.45:8086/write?db=cacti&precision=s
2018/01/23 14:36:07 - CereusTransporter STATS: Time:0.15 LookupTableSize:32 LookupUnitsTableSize:29 MetricsCount:45 AverageHostTime:0.05 SlowestHostnames:[127.0.0.1: 0.136s, 172.17.12.1: 0.000s, : 0.000s]

Please help me .

[phalek]

Doesn't it state in the description for the url to use the following ?

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Target URL/System
Full Database URL. Example: influxdb://user:password@localhost:8086/dbname for InfluxDB, https://user:password@localhost:8070/ for Bosun

[Joon]

Hello Phalek,

Thanks for this great plugin.

Sometimes I have wrong networks metrics displayed on Grafana, different than what Cacti shows on it's own graphs.

Cereus v0.64 is running on Cacti 0.8.8a, with spine poller running every minute on nearly 400 devices.
The data are exported to Influxdb and viewed with Grafana.

Is it because of the polling frequency being too high ?

Examples :

[chrispin2]

Hi

I have tried the latest setup attached here. It seems to be running however, i dont see any data in my InfluxDB

2018/03/22 11:15:03 - CereusTransporter STATS: Time:1.01 LookupTableSize:4548 LookupUnitsTableSize:4478 MetricsCount:0 AverageHostTime:0.00 SlowestHostnames:[: 0.000s]
2018/03/22 11:15:02 - CereusTransporter INFO: Adding data to influxdb
2018/03/22 11:15:01 - SYSTEM STATS: Time:298.8106 Method:spine Processes:6 Threads:6 Hosts:0 HostsPerProcess:0 DataSources:0 RRDsProcessed:0
2018/03/22 11:15:01 - POLLER: Poller[Main Poller] Maximum runtime of 298 seconds exceeded. Exiting.

[chrispin2]

Hi,

I have a main poller and a report poller, both file structures are the same, however from the looks of it, the remote poller seems to run the transporter plugin less frequently than the main poller. Any idea how do i make the remote poller update every 5 mins.

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2018/03/23 00:50:03 - CereusTransporter STATS: Time:1.00 LookupTableSize:4548 LookupUnitsTableSize:4478 MetricsCount:0 AverageHostTime:0.00 SlowestHostnames:[: 0.000s]
2018/03/23 00:50:02 - CereusTransporter INFO: Adding data to influxdb
2018/03/23 00:50:01 - SYSTEM STATS: Time:298.9260 Method:spine Processes:7 Threads:14 Hosts:0 HostsPerProcess:0 DataSources:0 RRDsProcessed:0
2018/03/23 00:50:01 - POLLER: Poller[Main Poller] Maximum runtime of 298 seconds exceeded. Exiting.
2018/03/23 00:45:03 - CereusTransporter STATS: Time:1.55 LookupTableSize:4548 LookupUnitsTableSize:4478 MetricsCount:0 AverageHostTime:0.00 SlowestHostnames:[: 0.000s]
2018/03/23 00:45:01 - CereusTransporter INFO: Adding data to influxdb
2018/03/23 00:45:01 - SYSTEM STATS: Time:298.7341 Method:spine Processes:7 Threads:14 Hosts:0 HostsPerProcess:0 DataSources:0 RRDsProcessed:0
2018/03/23 00:45:01 - POLLER: Poller[Main Poller] Maximum runtime of 298 seconds exceeded. Exiting.
2018/03/23 00:40:33 - CereusTransporter STATS: Time:32.78 LookupTableSize:4548 LookupUnitsTableSize:4478 MetricsCount:7597 AverageHostTime:0.11 SlowestHostnames:[xx: 0.373s, xx: 0.355s, xx: 0.278s, xx: 0.210s]
2018/03/23 00:40:00 - CereusTransporter INFO: Adding data to influxdb
2018/03/23 00:40:00 - SYSTEM STATS: Time:298.7034 Method:spine Processes:7 Threads:14 Hosts:0 HostsPerProcess:0 DataSources:0 RRDsProcessed:0
2018/03/23 00:40:00 - POLLER: Poller[Main Poller] Maximum runtime of 298 seconds exceeded. Exiting.
2018/03/23 00:35:02 - CereusTransporter STATS: Time:1.00 LookupTableSize:4548 LookupUnitsTableSize:4478 MetricsCount:0 AverageHostTime:0.00 SlowestHostnames:[: 0.000s]
2018/03/23 00:35:01 - CereusTransporter INFO: Adding data to influxdb 

[netniV]

Check that you have the same Data Collection profiles and the same cron tabs on both machines. If they are the same, see if the transport has settings that define it's cycle and that they are the same if there is any.

[chrispin2]

Check that you have the same Data Collection profiles and the same cron tabs on both machines. If they are the same, see if the transport has settings that define it's cycle and that they are the same if there is any.

Hi, Thanks for the reply.

The data collection profiles between master and poller are synced as both of them capture the settings from the same master database.
Checked the transport, there is no other settings.

Would anyone know if there is a hardcoded value for the reporting time?

[phalek]

Why is there actually a cut in the monthly Grafana graph at around 1/4 ? The data before that date looks fine, afterwards it is "different"