cactid installation problems

[Maestro_Ba]

Hi. I'm trying to install cactid.

1 -
If i try the RPM, I get:
# rpm -Uvh ../cacti-cactid-0.8.6g.fc4.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libcrypto.so.5 is needed by cacti-cactid-0.8.6g-1.i386
libmysqlclient.so.14 is needed by cacti-cactid-0.8.6g-1.i386
libnetsnmp.so.5 is needed by cacti-cactid-0.8.6g-1.i386


I tryed to install these using yum, but a get a lot of these kind of errors.

(...)
file /usr/share/man/man8/e2label.8.gz from install of e2fsprogs-1.38-0.FC4.1 conflicts with file from package e2fsprogs-1.37-4
file /usr/share/man/man8/ext2online.8.gz from install of e2fsprogs-1.38-0.FC4.1 conflicts with file from package e2fsprogs-1.37-4
file /usr/share/man/man8/filefrag.8.gz from install of e2fsprogs-1.38-0.FC4.1 conflicts with file from package e2fsprogs-1.37-4
file /usr/share/man/man8/findfs.8.gz from install of e2fsprogs-1.38-0.FC4.1 conflicts with file from package e2fsprogs-1.37-4
(...)

2 -
If I try to compile the binaries, I get:
#./configure
(...)
checking return type of signal handlers... void
checking for gettimeofday... yes
checking for strerror... yes
checking for strtoll... yes
checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no
configure: error: MySQL libraries not found.

Can anyone please tell me what I can do to solve this?
Thanks a lot.

[TheWitness]

Look into the installation folder for a readme and you will find your answer. Although, you need to have the aformentioned libraries installed before it will work.

TheWitness

[fmangeant]

configure: error: MySQL libraries not found.

Hi

you miss the mysql-devel package.

[Maestro_Ba]

First of all, thanks for the replys.

I have Fedora Core 4 x86_64, and I have mysql-devel installed. If I do yum list|grep mysql I get this:
libdbi-dbd-mysql.x86_64 0.7.1-3 installed
mysql.x86_64 4.1.20-1.FC4.1 installed
mysql-bench.x86_64 4.1.20-1.FC4.1 installed
mysql-devel.x86_64 4.1.20-1.FC4.1 installed
mysql-server.x86_64 4.1.20-1.FC4.1 installed
mysqlclient10.x86_64 3.23.58-6 installed
mysqlclient10-devel.x86_64 3.23.58-6 installed
php-mysql.x86_64 5.0.4-10 installed
php-mysql.x86_64 5.0.4-10.5 installed
freeradius-mysql.x86_64 1.0.4-1.FC4.1 updates-released
mod_auth_mysql.x86_64 1:2.6.1-4 base
mysql.i386 4.1.20-1.FC4.1 updates-released


TheWitness, inside file INSTALL I saw this:
- right now cactid requires -lmysqlclient_r to compile (which may be
removed in the future). It seems that the default Redhat (at least
RH9) RPM's have trouble with this. The mysql.com RPMs work fine
though.

I believe the problem is this one. What should I do? Which RPMs are you talking about? Could you be more specific about the solution to my problem?
Sorry about that, but I got confused about what to do, and I don't want to uninstall mysql.x86_64 since I already have LOTS of hosts configured in cacti.


Thanks a lot!

[Maestro_Ba]

All Right!

I solved this problem by looking at the last post of this thread:
http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t ... sql+cactid

So I changed file "configure"like this:

Line 4864: str="$i/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.*"
replaced by : str="$i/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.*"

Line 4867: MYSQL_LIB_DIR=$i/lib/mysql
by MYSQL_LIB_DIR=$i/lib64/mysql

Now the error is this one, but at least I'm going somewhere!

(...)
checking for CRYPTO_free in -lcrypto... no
configure: error: libcrypto not found!

I'll inform later if I succeed or not.

[Maestro_Ba]

Unfortunately I can't seem to fix this on my own...

Any advices? Thanks.

[fmangeant]

checking for CRYPTO_free in -lcrypto... no
configure: error: libcrypto not found!

Hi

IMO you miss the openssl-devel package.

[TheWitness]

I would agree.

TheWitness

[Maestro_Ba]

It wasn't that, I already had all the necessary packages.

I managed to compile cactid by looking at this thread http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t ... =libcrypto.

First I created a symbolic link /lib/libcrytpo.so pointing to /lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.7f (it was the highest version number available). Then I downloaded the net-snmp binaries and recompiled them.

After this I was able to compile cactid without problems.

My (2) problems were all due to the location of certain libraries. It seems that people with Fedora Core (like me) or with certain versions of Red Hat had the same problems as me.

Thanks anyway for the help!




Unfortunately I now have ANOTHER problem... Cactid worked fine (at first) but now all the graphs are blank, and I keep getting these 3 messages in the pooler:

1-
Error in packet
Reason: (noSuchName) There is no such variable name in this MIB.
Failed object: .1.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.71

2-
CACTID: Host[537] DS[2815] WARNING: Result from SNMP not valid. Partial Result: ...

3-
CACTID: ERROR: Problem initializing SNMP session ' 172.20.117.61'

This really isn't easy...

[TheWitness]

Sorry you are having difficulty:

1: is normal when you have a OID that does not exist on the host
2: normally results from 1:
3: is a problem. What version of Cactid and Net-SNMP-devel are your using?

TheWitness

[Maestro_Ba]

I have the latest cactid, cactid-0.8.6g.
I previously HAD:

#rpm -q net-snmp
net-snmp-5.2.1-12
net-snmp-5.2.1.2-fc4.1

# rpm -q net-snmp-devel
net-snmp-devel-5.2.1.2-fc4.1

But I have compiled net-snmp-5.3.1 (doesn't it include net-snmp-devel?)

I don't know how I can see the version of packages compiled by myself...

I'm trying to find net-snmp-devel-5.3.1 binaries, but I'm not finding.

Thanks

[Maestro_Ba]

I'm posting my poller log, in case it helps...

I'm not getting ANY graphic, except one that uses a local Script I made.
If I change to cmd.php it all seems right.

[Maestro_Ba]

THIS IS UNBELIAVABLE!!! I found out what was causing me problems. It's extremely simple, and it was caused by a distraction.

I forgot to do "System Utilities -> Clear Poller Cache" after changing to cactid.

Cactid is running, exactly the same way as cmd.php was.
Now it takes 190 seconds with 1 process, 20 threads.


No comments...


P.S.: Can anyone tell me which the best combination for "Cactid Specific Execution Parameters" is? I currently have:

Maximum Concurrent Poller Processes - 1
Maximum Threads per Process - 20
Number of PHP Script Servers - 1
Script and Script Server Timeout Value - 30
The Maximum SNMP OID's Per SNMP Get Request - 10

[TheWitness]

With Cactid 0.8.6g, you need to include full paths to binaries. If you simply change it in the Input Method and don't clear poller cache, bad things happen. In hindsight, that was a bad decision. So, in Cactid 0.8.6i, I have reverted to allowing the shortname for binaries.

TheWitness