mactrack date always on "Next Run Time: 1970-01-01 00:10:00"

[mohammadramadan]

Hello,
I am in the middle of my new setup of cacti 1.2.24, every thing going well but i am having now an issue with the mactrack plugin.
I have setup all requirements and when I scan the site manually, it woks but down in the window it always say "Next Run Time: 1970-01-01 00:10:00" , the scan task didn't start at all in its time "only when I scan the site manually".
in the log tab I have received this logs ...
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2023-08-12 19:27:07 - CMDPHP PHP ERROR Backtrace: (/plugins/mactrack/mactrack_view_sites.php[36]:mactrack_view_sites(), /plugins/mactrack/mactrack_view_sites.php[332]:mactrack_display_stats(), /plugins/mactrack/lib/mactrack_functions.php[3128]:strtotime(), CactiErrorHandler())
2023-08-12 19:27:07 - ERROR PHP DEPRECATED in Plugin 'mactrack': strtotime(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($datetime) of type string is deprecated in file: /var/www/html/cacti/plugins/mactrack/lib/mactrack_functions.php on line: 3128
2023-08-12 19:27:07 - CMDPHP PHP ERROR Backtrace: (/plugins/mactrack/mactrack_view_sites.php[36]:mactrack_view_sites(), /plugins/mactrack/mactrack_view_sites.php[332]:mactrack_display_stats(), /plugins/mactrack/lib/mactrack_functions.php[3128]:strtotime(), CactiErrorHandler())
2023-08-12 19:27:07 - ERROR PHP DEPRECATED in Plugin 'mactrack': strtotime(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($datetime) of type string is deprecated in file: /var/www/html/cacti/plugins/mactrack/lib/mactrack_functions.php on line: 3128
2023-08-12 19:27:06 - CMDPHP PHP ERROR Backtrace: (/plugins/mactrack/mactrack_view_sites.php[36]:mactrack_view_sites(), /plugins/mactrack/mactrack_view_sites.php[332]:mactrack_display_stats(), /plugins/mactrack/lib/mactrack_functions.php[3128]:strtotime(), CactiErrorHandler())
2023-08-12 19:27:06 - ERROR PHP DEPRECATED in Plugin 'mactrack': strtotime(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($datetime) of type string is deprecated in file: /var/www/html/cacti/plugins/mactrack/lib/mactrack_functions.php on line: 3128
2023-08-12 19:26:53 - SYSTEM MACTRACK: Site scan 'DC', by 'Administrator(admin)'
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kindly what could my problem is and how to solve it? I am using mactrack 4.6 from the github

[Osiris]

Looks like a more recent release of PHP where the type checking rules are much more strick. You should open a ticket on GitHub.

[TheWitness]

Looks like an old MacTrack. If you are running a fairly recent version of Cacti, use the latest 'develop' of MacTrack. xmacan is working on a new version that I will help with.

[mohammadramadan]

Hi Bro,
Firstly thank you so much.
I wanted to tell you that this mactrack is the github downloaded version of the code 4.6.
plus I wanted to tell you that, so funny when loggen in today I found it looks normal and the 1970 issue gone with no error logs related as previously mentiond "Scanning Rate: Every 15 Minutes, Status: Idle, LastRuntime: 0.0 seconds, Processes: 0 processes, Devices: 0, Next Run Time: 2023-08-13 05:45:02".

but received warning of delayed unsynced poller.."2023-08-13 05:20:01 - POLLER: Poller[Main Poller] PID[1288] WARNING: Cron is out of sync with the Poller Interval! The Poller Interval is '300' seconds, with a maximum of a '300' second Cron, but 599.6 seconds have passed since the last poll! ".

what do you think I need to take an action regarding the old and the new logs? "check attached please".

[Osiris]

I use Cactid. It's a systemd service vs Cron. The poller gap was likely experience right when you made your changes. I wouldn't worry about it.

[mohammadramadan]

Hello ,
now I got this change, scan process stucked about 3 hours now and may be more for the second time with this attached message in the image.
why that happen and just work again by it self, and what id this max duration time ??? this getting me crazy.

[Osiris]

What's going on on the command line? Could be the resolver taking time.

[mohammadramadan]

How do you want me to test the command line?

[macan]

php /path/to/cacti/plugin/mactrack/poller_mactrack.php --debug

Or You can try run it manually for every host
Device tracking -> devices -> choose any and in address will be .... action=edit&device_id=X

X is what we are looking for

try to run (change X with your id)
php /path/to/cacti/plugin/mactrack/mactrack_scanner.php -debug -id=X

[TheWitness]

Run is with the --help option.