run 2 Cacti's on one machine using cactid ?

ruud · Post by **ruud** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:27 am

I would like to run 2 different cacti's on one machine so i can abuse one for testing new plugins/scripts etc and the other for normal use...

Installing another cacti in a different dir shouldnt be a problem. Runnel another poller.php from the cron shouldnt be a problem either since it uses a different dir..

Creating a second database in mysql should be simple enough..

Thing is.. I use cactid for the actual polling.. Is it possible to run cactid twice for different cacti's ?

Post by **rony** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:20 am

ruud · Post by **ruud** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:56 am

Yes.. Ah great..

Perhaps you could give me a hint as to how to achieve this ?

fmangeant · Post by **fmangeant** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:58 am

Hi

you have to run cactid like this :

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/path/to/cactid --conf=/path/to/file

For an options list, run cactid with "--help".

ruud · Post by **ruud** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:06 am

Okay,

i created an alternate cactid.conf file, but cactid isnt started directly but is called by the poller.php.

Being the php noob that i am, i'm having difficulty i finding the right lines to change to get cactid to read the config from /etc/cactid/dev/conf instead of the default /etc/cactid.conf which is read automatically according to the --help output.

fmangeant · Post by **fmangeant** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:40 am

Maybe you can create 2 shell scripts like this :

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#!/bin/sh

/path/to/cactid --conf=/path/to/config

ruud · Post by **ruud** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:55 am

I created a scipt calling cactid using a different config file..

Sadly this doesnt work, cactid exits with an error :

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cactidevuser@margraten /root $ /bin/sh /usr/sbin/cactid-dev     
ERROR: Cactid requires either 0 or 2 input parameters
USAGE: <cactidpath>/cactid [start_host_id end_host_id]

it seems cactid doesnt accept an alternate file but searches for it himself.

ruud · Post by **ruud** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:42 am

Anyone ?? I am running cacti for 2 different network in 2 differen setups.. Using poller.php on the second instance leads to very high polling time for both instances..

I tried using cactid with a different config file but cactid finds it own config file, there is no way to make it use a different config file that i can find.

suggestions ?

run 2 Cacti's on one machine using cactid ?

run 2 Cacti's on one machine using cactid ?

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