Disable polling detection for a specific device

[claranet]

Hi guys,

Does anybody knows any way to disable polling detection for a specific device? I want to be able of pinging a device though this is down and don't answers to SNMP requests.

[fmangeant]

Hi

if you don't use SNMP for this device, you can leave the SNMP community string blank.

With Cacti 0.9, you'll be able to choose a "device down" detection method for each device.

[claranet]

I use SNMP too.

It's possible to have this functionality before 0.9 ?

[gandalf]

I use SNMP too.

It's possible to have this functionality before 0.9 ?

Pardon me, if I insist. You did realize, that fmangeant asked for SNMP usage for exactly that device? So you would disable SNMP for that very device only?
Reinhard

[claranet]

Hi Reinhard,

What I want to do is to poll router devices. So, I need SNMP for them to know traffic and Load, but I want to ping them too to see the latency. The problem is that, when the router is down, SNMP is not available for them, and then, Cacti suppose that the device is not available and doesn't ping the device. I would like that Cacti ping the device in this situation too, just to see that the device is not available.

NOTE: I have also pings to hosts that doesn't have SNMP available and I've removed de community, working all ok. But the problem with routers is diferent, because I need SNMP too, for them.

Is this possible?

[TheWitness]

Unfortunately, there is no easy way to make this happen in 0.8.6 without some major changes that are incongruent with the current polling methodology.

TheWitness