Cactid 0.8.6i Beta2 Available for Test

[duckhead]

Ah, ok I think I am catching on!

Here is where I am stuck now:
aclocal19
autoheader259
cp CHANGELOG ChangeLog
automake19
autoconf259
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/opt/net-snmp/lib/:/opt/mysql/lib/mysql/
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
./configure --prefix=/opt/apache/htdocs/cacti --with-mysql=/opt/mysql/ --with-snmp=/opt/net-snmp/
configure: error: cannot run /usr/local/bin/bash config/config.sub


Any thoughts?

Convert config/config.sub to unix text format. I get the same error if I don't do that.

[duckhead]

Overall, this is a wonderful program, but the build on Unix is still pretty shaky. That's probably because TheWitness is still developing under Windows. In any event, here are my notes on a Unix build I just did:

1. It is necesary to convert all of the files in the tar.gz from DOS to Unix line endings. If you don't do this first, you're going to have strange problems.

2. It is necessary to run autoconf at a minimum. Note that this is typically done by the developer, so the users don't have to install autoconf.

3. The configure script autoconf generated for Solaris 8 + Net-SNMP has a bug, possibly depending on how Net-SNMP was built. In my case, I had to include "-lkstat" to make sure that we pass the configure test for Net-SNMP. If you have this bug, you'll see references to things like kstat_open in config.log. I'll need to look and see what other packages do to come up with a solution. I'm not a autoconf guru by any means.

4. There are a couple functions called in cactid.c, install_cactid_signal_handler and uninstall_cactid_signal_handler, these are prototyped in error.h and defined in error.c. Unfortunately, the function definitions are commented out. I'm not sure what the intent is here (whether or not we should be calling these), so I commented out the calls in cactid.c. It may be that the correct answer is to remove the comments in error.c, I'm not sure.

5. Once configure runs successfully, run "make".

6. The config/install-sh is not shipped executable. It has to be for "make install" to succeed. Run: "chmod u+x config/install-sh"

7. Run "make install"

8. The install installs a bunch of files that it likey shouldn't. Generally, you don't expect to have header files installed unless there are also library files. The header files that "make install" installs are only necessary for the cactid compile, so they should be omitted.

9. There might be another issue with the default directories the install is going to. I use a custom directory, so I need to investigate a little more.

Edit: Add in the part about the signal handlers and stroke TheWitness's ego a bit at the top.

[fmangeant]

Here are the results :

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SYSTEM STATS: Time:118.9541 Method:cactid Processes:4 Threads:30 Hosts:180 HostsPerProcess:45 DataSources:3578 RRDsProcessed:2412

This system is running CentOS 4.4 under VMware ESX Server 2.5.2 (1 Opteron 250 @ 2.4 GHz and 512 Mb RAM are dedicated to this virtual machine).

Could the threads / number of processes, etc. be configured better ?

Edit : there does not appear to be a problem with I/O

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10:11:13          CPU     %user     %nice   %system   %iowait     %idle
Average:          all      2,24      0,50      6,65      5,88     84,73

Thanks !

[TheWitness]

1 process
20 threads

TheWitness

[TFC]

I download cactid.tar.gz and extract it
But I didnt find configure file.
I find configure.ac file.
Is there any missing file?

[cigamit]

I download cactid.tar.gz and extract it
But I didnt find configure file.
I find configure.ac file.
Is there any missing file?

If using linux, you need to at least do a autoconf to create the config file (probably Windows too) I personally do it this way

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aclocal
autoheader
automake
autoconf
./configure
make
make install

If using linux, you will also have to convert it unix format using the dos2unix tool, and rename CHANGELOG to ChangeLog

[fmangeant]

1 process
20 threads

• With 1 process / 20 threads :

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  POLLER: Poller[0] Maximum runtime of 292 seconds exceeded. Exiting.
  09/15/2006 08:59:54 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:293.0574 Method:cactid Processes:1 Threads:20 Hosts:180 HostsPerProcess:180 DataSources:3578 RRDsProcessed:2276

• With 2 processes / 20 threads :

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  09/15/2006 09:07:43 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:161.7287 Method:cactid Processes:2 Threads:20 Hosts:180 HostsPerProcess:90 DataSources:3578 RRDsProcessed:2412

• With 4 processes / 25 threads :

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  09/15/2006 09:32:03 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:121.2605 Method:cactid Processes:4 Threads:25 Hosts:180 HostsPerProcess:45 DataSources:3578 RRDsProcessed:2412

[TheWitness]

What is your script and script server count?

Larry

[fmangeant]

25, but on this system I only use SNMP.

[TheWitness]

What are your max_oid's per get request sent to? Do you have a high latency network?

Regards,

Larry

[TheWitness]

I am going to make a change to poller.php this weekend to speed up rrdtool, are you interested?

Larry

[fmangeant]

I've tested from 30 to 60, but it does not seem to change anything. Current value is 45

Most of the servers respond in 1 to 2 ms.

[NetGeek]

Ok,
Have downloaded source and converted from DOS to Unix. Have also performed the follwing steps:

aclocal
autoheader
automake
autoconf

Now I try to run ./configure and get the following:

nms-lab3(root)# ./configure
checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
checking for a BSD-compatible install... config/install-sh -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for a BSD-compatible install... config/install-sh -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking whether to enable -Wall... no
checking for gethostbyname in -lnsl... yes
checking for socket in -lsocket... yes
checking for floor in -lm... yes
checking for pthread_exit in -lpthread... yes
checking for deflate in -lz... yes
checking for egrep... egrep
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... no
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking sys/socket.h usability... yes
checking sys/socket.h presence... yes
checking for sys/socket.h... yes
checking sys/select.h usability... yes
checking sys/select.h presence... yes
checking for sys/select.h... yes
checking sys/wait.h usability... yes
checking sys/wait.h presence... yes
checking for sys/wait.h... yes
checking sys/time.h usability... yes
checking sys/time.h presence... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking assert.h usability... yes
checking assert.h presence... yes
checking for assert.h... yes
checking ctype.h usability... yes
checking ctype.h presence... yes
checking for ctype.h... yes
checking errno.h usability... yes
checking errno.h presence... yes
checking for errno.h... yes
checking signal.h usability... yes
checking signal.h presence... yes
checking for signal.h... yes
checking math.h usability... yes
checking math.h presence... yes
checking for math.h... yes
checking malloc.h usability... yes
checking malloc.h presence... yes
checking for malloc.h... yes
checking netdb.h usability... yes
checking netdb.h presence... yes
checking for netdb.h... yes
checking for signal.h... (cached) yes
checking stdarg.h usability... yes
checking stdarg.h presence... yes
checking for stdarg.h... yes
checking stdio.h usability... yes
checking stdio.h presence... yes
checking for stdio.h... yes
checking syslog.h usability... yes
checking syslog.h presence... yes
checking for syslog.h... yes
checking netinet/in.h usability... yes
checking netinet/in.h presence... yes
checking for netinet/in.h... yes
checking for unsigned long long... yes
checking for long long... yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
checking return type of signal handlers... void
checking for malloc... yes
checking for calloc... yes
checking for gettimeofday... yes
checking for strerror... yes
checking for strtoll... yes
checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... yes
checking for mysql_thread_init in -lmysqlclient... yes
checking if UCD-SNMP needs crypto support... no
checking if Net-SNMP needs crypto support... yes
checking for CRYPTO_realloc in -lcrypto... yes
checking for snmp_timeout in -lnetsnmp... no
Cannot find NET-SNMP libraries(snmp)... checking UCD-SNMP
checking for snmp_timeout in -lsnmp... no
configure: error: Cannot find UCD-SNMP libraries(snmp)
nms-lab3(root)#

Any thoughts how to get past this point?
Thanks!
NetGeek

[duckhead]

Any thoughts how to get past this point?
Thanks!
NetGeek

Sure, did you bother to read my post above, specifically point number 3, which is specific to the Solaris 8 OS + Net-SNMP?

[NetGeek]

Any thoughts how to get past this point?
Thanks!
NetGeek

Sure, did you bother to read my post above, specifically point number 3, which is specific to the Solaris 8 OS + Net-SNMP?

Yup, Sure Did!!
And this is what I got:

nms-lab3(root)# ./configure -lkstat
configure: error: unrecognized option: -lkstat
Try `./configure --help' for more information.
nms-lab3(root)#

Do you see what I may have missed?
Thanks!
NetGeek