specific time monitoring to monitor specific time slots?

[paulio]

How do i monitor a specific time period i.e. monday to friday- 9 til 5?

[BSOD2600]

Why don't you want data collected 24/7 ? Just change the default graph view (you'll have to create a new one) to only show 9-5pm.

Moving to general.

[paulio]

We need to monitor schools core hours 9 til 5 and not for the time that the schools are closed because that information is no use to us.
Could you help at all?

[gandalf]

You may change crontab-based polling to those hours. But the displays would continue to show whole days. You may use the time selector to only display last xx hours, but that's not exactly what you've asked for. So no clue for this
Reinhard

[paulio]

how do we access this 'crontab-based polling' and the 'time selector? We've had no luck in finding them!!!

[paulio]

can i also ask which version of cacti you have? we have version 0.8.6F

[BSOD2600]

Any reason for sticking with such an old versions? I suggest you upgrade to 0.8.6h and install the patches too.

[gandalf]

how do we access this 'crontab-based polling' and the 'time selector? We've had no luck in finding them!!!

crontab: see e.g. /etc/crontab or /etc/cron.d/cacti or "crontab -e -u cactiuser" or the like and change

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*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/php ...poller.php ...

to your desired timeframe. See crontab docs on how to do that.
As to the time selector: see attached picture and notice the From and To selectors
Reinhard

[paulio]

We are running cacti on windows 2003. Can you provide any advise on how to set up my previous request? Any kind of help would be very much appriciated. Thanks for your help so far.

[BSOD2600]

1) Only have the cacti scheduled task run from 9-5pm
2) Edit your cacti MySQL tables to add a Graph View Timespan of 9-5pm, since cacti does not let you change these via the GUI.

[paulio]

Could you please tell me where to find upgrade/backup details for the windows platform of cacti 8.0.6h?

Cheers

Paulio