Problem with graphics/poller

[Skipdog]

I created the scheduled task for the poller process. The main problem is I have no graphs. I was able to plug the new device in and it saw the interfaces. I created a new device and associated graphs. Worked great. The scheduled task is firing up a CMD windows box, and nothing is happening - it just sits there. I can't figure out how to troubleshoot it. As a side, do I need Perl loaded? I couldn't figure that one out.

Any ideas on the blank cmd prompt screen with nothing happening?

Brian

[Skipdog]

I found this in the cacti.log file:

04/30/2005 08:16:01 PM - POLLER: Poller[0] Maximum runtime of 296 seconds exceeded. Exiting.

It seems the poller isn't completing, it looks like it really never does anything.

[Skipdog]

Can someone explain the relationship CACTID has with Cacti? I noticed in my config that the alternate poller path wasn't set. The instructions said to obtain cactid and put it in c:\cactid. I did this.. Three files. When I run cactid.exe manually I get the following:

C:\cactid>cactid
CACTID: Using cactid config file [cactid.conf]
CACTID: MYSQL: Connection failed after 10 attempts : Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client

I'm a little confused where the failure is occuring.

Brian

[BSOD2600]

Search the forum for that last error and you'll find many posts.

What MySQL version you running? Cactid 0.8.6d does not work with mysql 4.1 and causes that error.

[Skipdog]

OK,

Well i'm ruling out Cactid since i'm not using that polling method. I'm now getting different errors in my cacti.log:

Hosts/Process: 3
04/30/2005 10:06:30 PM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[1] WARNING: Result from CMD not valid. Partial Result:
04/30/2005 10:06:31 PM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[1] WARNING: Result from CMD not valid. Partial Result:
04/30/2005 10:06:31 PM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[1] WARNING: Result from CMD not valid. Partial Result:
04/30/2005 10:06:31 PM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[1] WARNING: Result from CMD not valid. Partial Result:
04/30/2005 10:06:32 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 2.1104 s, Method: cmd.php, Processes: 1, Threads: N/A, Hosts: 3, Hosts/Process: 3
04/30/2005 10:12:02 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time: 2.2213 s, Method: cmd.php, Processes: 1, Threads: N/A, Hosts: 3, Hosts/Process: 3


Completely different... Now, no graphs paint - it used to try to paint broken links - but now nothing.

I am running php 4.1... I couldn't get 4.0 to work properly permission wise either. I don't think i'm having permission problems now, I just can't get it to poll correctly. The black cmd screens that open are now coming up and going away (like I think they should) - fairly quickly, but not ultra (error like) fast.

Brian

[Skipdog]

I was able to get it working.. I honestly have no idea what I did differently. I ended up deinstalling/reinstalling mysql 4.1 several times. Bottom line it is working and i'm pretty happy with the product.

Has anyone ever found a way to keep track of IIS6 SMTP queues?

Brian

[BSOD2600]

WMI or snmp-informant should be able to do that for you.

[Skipdog]

I think I got everything working.

BSOD or anyone - have you figured out how to get CPU Router usage working? I think when I add it for the routers - the graph never gets painted, and it ends up hosing up the collections for the other graphs. We are running Cisco 3840's.

Brian

[BSOD2600]

The Cisco Router - 5 Minute CPU, template works just fine on my Cisco uBR924.

Manually walk to OID and see if you get a valid output. Might have to just use a custom OID template to get it to be graphed.