Plugin Architecture for Cacti and Monitoring Module

apeterson · Post by **apeterson** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 2:56 pm

i have the monitor and thold plugins running on 0.8.6f nicely except for 1 thing - nothing ever shows as down. cacti's log shows the host no longer responding to SNMP and says it's down:

09/02/2005 11:54:17 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[47] SNMP: Host did not respond to SNMP
09/02/2005 11:54:17 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[47] ERROR: HOST EVENT: Host is DOWN Message: Host did not respond to SNMP

but it's as if the db is never updated with this information. i'm at a loss. can anyone help?

kingaru · Post by **kingaru** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 10:15 am

According to the documentation I have to install "plugin architecture" on the cleant 0.8f intallation. Is there possibility to have official cacti patches be installed after plugin architecture stuff installation?

Regards
Igor

Post by **rony** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:23 pm

There will not be "offical" patches for a cacti 0.8.6 installation with the Plugin Arch installed.

We are currently working on implementing a plugin arch in the next major release of cacti 0.9.0.

Alex72 · Post by **Alex72** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 2:43 am

Hi 2 all of you!

First I want to thank everyone who spends time on developing or testing these great features all around cacti! You´re doing a great job!!!

I have installed the latest Plugin-Architectur (v0.6), latest Monitor Plugin (v0.3)and latest Thold-Plugin (v0.2.4) and have the following problem:

when a host is dead (monitoring and Thold Plugin show that it´s dead!) I receive no email notification!

Threshold notification is running - i.e. I receive email when threshold is exceeded!

Can anyone turn me into the right direction?

Thanks,
Alex.

ioiioi · Post by **ioiioi** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 5:47 am

great job!
cigmat make our lift easier, but I encouter some prob.
first of all, I should list my enviroment and installation steps in details.
win2k svr + sp4
mysql-4.0.25
php-4.3.11
cacti-0.8.6f
apache-2.0.53
it works fine even after installing xml-cisco-nbar-statstic plugins.
so, I want to use the greatest plugin:
1. I downloaded plugin architecture, monitor0.5 and thold0.2.4 from http://cactiusers.org/;
2. backup the whole cacti installation directory to a safe place;
3. unzipped all files within cacti-plugin-arch.zip to c:\apache2\htdocs\cacti\, overrided the files which has the same name.
4. modified \cacti\include\config.php
$config["url_path"] = '/'; to $config["url_path"] = '/cacti/';
5. unzipped moniter and thold to the \cacti\plugins\
6. modified the \cacti\config.php
$plugins = array();
//$plugins[] = 'thold';

to
$plugins = array();
$plugins[] = 'thold';
$plugins[] = 'monitor';

at last, I restart My computer.
login with admin privilige, I encounter sevaral probs.
1.there is no monitor tab.
2.Thold works fine, but cannot send out an alert email.(maybe this is my own problem, because I have no idea how to configure the smtp option, but I am very appreciate if any expert can tell me how to do it)
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xphu · Post by **xphu** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 7:12 am

1. Monitor tab.

Please go to cacti -> User management -> User Name "admin"->Realm Permissions and turn on ""View Monitoring"". Hope this should solve your problem.

2. With Thold I am experiencing with the same problem and so far was not able to figure out why thodl is not sending smtp messages?

xphu

ioiioi · Post by **ioiioi** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 11:25 am

xphu, thanks for your reply, you resolve my first problem.

To be honest, using a new plugins for cacti is a terrible thing.
because some plugins required to modify your main cacti files and interfere with the current stable circumstance.
some plugins lack of instruction about installation.
some plugins's info may distribute in several topics, then you have to search the whole forums to get it work.
some plugins may derive to several version, such as "smokeping like". the newbie absolutely lost his mind about this.

I dont know whether the new version(0.9) can solve these problems.

cigamit · Post by **cigamit** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 3:16 pm

After much debugging, I have released v0.2.5 of the Thold Plugin. There are numerous fixes in this one in regards to the alerting. Such as

1. Test Link created (check under Settings) to help debug sending issues
2. Several fixes to the Thresholds Mailing (SMTP should work now!)
3. Several fixes to the Down Host Notication

At a later time, all Mail functions will be branched off to a seperate plugin, so that all future plugins can take advantage of the Sending options.

It is not necessary to update your Plugin Architecture to upgrade to this version.

AndyStewart · Post by **AndyStewart** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:37 am

hi cigamit....

the installation instructions for Plugin talk about running "patch...." - i'm assuming this is on Unix?

How do i install it under windows?

(and the same for latest THold please)

cigamit · Post by **cigamit** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:22 am

AndyStewart wrote:hi cigamit....

the installation instructions for Plugin talk about running "patch...." - i'm assuming this is on Unix?

How do i install it under windows?

(and the same for latest THold please)

I release both a patch and the already patches files in the same archive.

For Windows, just use the included files to override the original Cacti files (remember to backup first as always!). Once that is done, there should be a directory called "plugins".

From there just follow these directions to install the THold plugin.
Plugin Install Instructions

AndyStewart · Post by **AndyStewart** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:15 am

Excellent - thanks for that got it working now....

Just 1 thing...

Since installing THOLD, i've found that viewing any of the graphs, or trying to modify any devices is now INCREDIBLY slow. Whereas before pages would show up within 2-3 seconds, its now taking over 60 seconds (and sometimes longer) before the pages finally refresh...

Any ideas?

Just a test server at the moment, but still a reasonable spec (3.2 GHZ proc, 256 MB Mem, 40 GB disk space, running 2003 fully patched apart from SP1. All CACTI info in signature)

Sigy · Post by **Sigy** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:14 pm

Hi everyone,

I'm using thold and monitor addons in cacti. Is there a possibilty in monitor to see under each host the latest down and up time, date of the status change ?

cigamit · Post by **cigamit** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:51 pm

Sigy wrote:Hi everyone,

I'm using thold and monitor addons in cacti. Is there a possibilty in monitor to see under each host the latest down and up time, date of the status change ?

Not sure if it is exactly what you are looking for, but if you move your move over the Icon of the host in the Monitor, you will see a tooltip (Mozilla doesn't look great, since no line breaks), but in IE it should display just fine.

Sigy · Post by **Sigy** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:55 pm

hi cigamit

As you can see in the tooltip there is only

Status: Up (But since when is this status up I need time and date)

The last Fail Information give me only a view when the host went down for the last time. What if this host was down for 30 minutes ? then i can't see the duration of this outage.

How can i make it to see in this case in tooltip the realy UP time and date ?

kslt · Post by **kslt** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 7:55 am

hello all

i have a problem with the monitoring tool and also (i don't know if its somehow connected) with HOST (Device table).

Not in device and not in monitor i can't see the latency and any other data ..

what is wrong ??

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