Graphing intermittent when doing scheduled FTP export

[fas73]

I was just testing regular (hourly) FTP-transfers for my graphs and I noticed the graphs wherecactid-0.8.6e.zipa lacking some data after this FTP-thing was turned on. I changed to FTPing once a day, and the same thing happened then, so I've just turned it off for now. I have quite many data-sources but did not believe the FTP would be such a big deal, in fact I supposed it would live in parallel to the other polling, right? I have some long-delay hosts being polled, some pings going on, they all work fine and the graphs are complete when FTP export is turned OFF.

Actually for FTPing so many files I would wish for some automatic packing of all the files then using WGET accessing some script on the remote server to do the job for unpacking them. I also miss some features for user-control for accessing the graphs on the remote site. I have all my graphs on my internal network, then I plan to do a FTP to let external users access various graphs.

Anyone having some ideas? By the way I am using the cacti-0.8.6f, cactid-0.8.6e, WIN2003 server and some late pathces (ref MISORA FTP script).

FS

[BSOD2600]

1) You're talking about the graph export ftp function?
2) Which FTP mode are you using in cacti?
3) Which version of php are you using?
4) Are certain graphs always missing or is it random?

[fas73]

Hey,

1) Yes, FTP graph export under settings
2) I tested the 'Ftp (remote) - use php functions'
3) PHP 4.3.11 (cli) (built: Mar 30 2005 17:34:15) *
4) I saw the sympthoms on all graphs being related to the 'FTP times',
but maybe not on every FTP, sometimes it was ok.

* PHP Binary Path is set to use the CLI-mode one, however I am
not sure which one is being used for the FTP export, supposedly
the same one maybe

I am just interested to know if anyone else has seen this, and if you wish I can switch on FTP once more and post the graph. The only thing you will notice is that at the point where there's 'problem' there will be no value on the graphs. To eliminate possible error sources I will put up a local FTP-site being inside our firewall and test that the PHP-session does not hang or something.. Many small files transferred would put up quite many sessions I believe through both firewall and at the FTP-server..

FS

[BSOD2600]

1) I wouldn't use the php cli module. I haven't had good experiences in the past getting it to work with Cacti.

2) All graphs appear normally when viewed?

3) What rrdtool version?

4) Either take a screenshot of the graph export page or copy/paste all the settings you're using.