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Cactid 0.8.6i Beta Available for Test

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All,

A new release of Cactid - Beta is available for download and test. I am including a binary version of Cactid for Windows made with Cygwin1.dll version 1.5.20. If you use other versions of Cygwin1.dll, you should compile from source.

There are several changes in this version as documented below.
0.8.6i
-bug: Only output as much as MySQL can handle in 1 insert
-bug: Faulty Script Server shutdown was causing race condition
-bug: Allow ICMP or UDP ping to work if host begins with either "TCP:" or "UDP:"
-bug: Change assert logging to HIGH to more closely match cmd.php
-bug: Allow Cactid to make on 64bit x86 Platforms - thanks to Reuben Farrelly
-bug: Changing syntax from "insert into to replace into" for reindex inserts
-bug: Don't perform a reindex a check for a data query if you already have to reindex
-bug: Make sure to log FATAL to stderr
-bug: Do not re-index a host if the re-index value is a "No Such Instance" result.
-bug#0000682: Allow storing of each hosts polling start time
-bug#0000691: Cactid fails with custom snmp port
-bug#0000699: Tick counts not being detected
-bug#0000706: Cactid didn't start PHP scripts when host didn't answer SNMP (but icmp is ok)
-bug#0000710: cactid.conf doesn't allow for no mysql password
-bug#0000716: Don't attempt to save output for a host if there is none.
-bug#0000717: Allow numeric double results to start with '+', '-', '.'
-bug#0000724: cactid truncate script command when reindex
-bug#0000736: Solaris 8 : Alarm Clock message
-bug#0000745: cactid: search path for mysql and snmp does not include /usr/pkg
-bug#0000748: cactid doesn't handle special charectors
-bug#0000749: Cactid 0.8.6g won't accept special characters from data template
-bug#0000750: poller doesn't check for snmp if udp ping fails
-bug#0000752: Problem with OID truncation with cactid
-feature: add Net-SNMP Library vs. Header check prior to execution
-feature: enabled signal handling in cactid
I really need a Solaris 2.8 tester due to the change that I have made to support the "buggy" Solaris threading model.

If you are running from *nix and need to build from source, please use the following commands so that you show the correct version information when running Cactid.

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aclocal
autoheader
autoconf
automake
./configure
make
make install
Please submit user experiences to this post.

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Post by cigamit »

Nix version works perfectly on my test Centos servers. When compiling however, you still run into the issue that the changelog is referenced in a case insensitive way. So before compiling CHANGELOG has to be renamed to ChangeLog. Or you could change the case in Makefile.in.
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Post by reub »

Also seeing the message:

[root@tornado cactid]# automake
Makefile.am: required file `./ChangeLog' not found
[root@tornado cactid]#

But otherwise it all runs great on Fedora Devel x86_64.
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Post by Jeppe »

Seems to work fine. Still leaves those zombies around on my box until it's finished. Not sure why every version since -e of -f has done that.
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Jeppe,

Please run one or two passes in Debug if you can't do it online and send me the results. Also, take a screen shot of TOP filtered to show just the cacti poller user and send them along.

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Compilation issues

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Hi,

I had some compilation issues.
OS = Slackware 10.2

example: ./configure resulted in "configure: error: cannot run /bin/sh config/config.sub"

To solve:

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- Go to ./config directory
- remove "^M" from the files "config.guess","config.sub","depcomp","mkinstalldirs","install-sh"
    Howto: Use the command "%s/^M//g" within vim 
    Remark: ^ = CTRL-V  /  M = CTRL-M
Regards,
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Re: Compilation issues

Post by drose12 »

dos2unix *

works too :)

To solve:

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- Go to ./config directory
- remove "^M" from the files "config.guess","config.sub","depcomp","mkinstalldirs","install-sh"
    Howto: Use the command "%s/^M//g" within vim 
    Remark: ^ = CTRL-V  /  M = CTRL-M
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Sorry about that guys, I am still mostly Windows when it comes to Cacti... :oops:

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Post by drose12 »

Using Cactid 0.8.6g:

07/27/2006 12:28:42 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:220.8309 Method:cactid Processes:2 Threads:15 Hosts:208 HostsPerProcess:104 DataSources:12866 RRDsProcessed:6772

Using Cactid 0.8.6ibeta:

07/27/2006 12:33:45 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:223.1606 Method:cactid Processes:2 Threads:15 Hosts:208 HostsPerProcess:104 DataSources:12866 RRDsProcessed:6772
07/27/2006 12:33:45 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[111] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:33:48 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[112] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:33:50 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[147] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:33:52 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[153] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:33:55 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[154] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:33:58 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[15] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:34:00 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[160] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:34:02 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[161] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:34:03 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[166] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:34:05 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[16] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:34:07 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[177] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:34:13 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[17] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:34:14 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[184] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:34:20 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[185] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:34:21 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[18] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:34:24 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[207] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:34:37 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[20] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:34:37 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[216] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:34:38 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[217] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:34:45 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[225] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:34:46 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[231] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:34:47 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[235] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:34:49 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[24] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:34:55 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[257] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:34:57 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[26] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:35:01 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[27] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:35:07 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[30] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:35:15 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[31] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:35:22 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[32] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:35:25 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[33] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:35:27 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[40] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:35:32 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[52] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:35:34 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[57] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:35:37 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[58] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:35:43 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[70] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:35:48 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[71] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:35:50 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[79] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:35:57 PM - PCOMMAND: Poller[0] Host[8] WARNING: Recache Event Detected for Host
07/27/2006 12:36:01 PM - RECACHE STATS: RecacheTime:136.4020 HostsRecached:38
07/27/2006 12:38:45 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:223.5421 Method:cactid Processes:2 Threads:15 Hosts:208 HostsPerProcess:104 DataSources:12866 RRDsProcessed:6772
07/27/2006 12:43:46 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:224.0050 Method:cactid Processes:2 Threads:15 Hosts:208 HostsPerProcess:104 DataSources:12866 RRDsProcessed:6772


Recache Events? What's that? I also can hardly wait for distributed polling because I am approaching 300sec. Mostly coming from scripts :(
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This is normal when coming from some earlier versions of Cactid.

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Cactid 0.8.6i-beta

Post by kwabbernoot »

Hi,

Started using this poller on my current 0.8.6h test installation and everythings seems to run smoothly.

Debug log does not show errors in my config :D

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Post by dragec »

please see

http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=15507
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Post by fozzy »

running cactid 0.8.6i on cacti 0.8.6h
debian linux compiles fine

with around 1700 datasources and 150 rrds it runs about 4 times faster than cmd.php (single thread vs single process)

Thanks. :)
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Post by dragec »

fozzy wrote:running cactid 0.8.6i on cacti 0.8.6h
debian linux compiles fine

with around 1700 datasources and 150 rrds it runs about 4 times faster than cmd.php (single thread vs single process)

Thanks. :)
do you use external scripts like perl scripts?
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Dragec,

Can you work this issue online. I am not experiencing issues with scripts in my install and I would like to review this with you 1-on-1.

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