Problems editing existing conf files

[Alchemist]

Hello,

Sorry to make my first post here a request, but I've searched and tried everything I can think of and I'm still stuck.

Basically I can get a weathermap working and displaying information, but as soon as I edit the .conf file(even just opening without and change and closing) it will stop the graph working.

Once I edit an existing map instead of the map displaying I merely get "this map has not been created yet" usually it will do with for 5 minutes whilst it is gathering information, but I let it run for 2 hours and still no map.

Here is my config files, can anyone see anything terribly wrong with it or is there a correct way to exit the editor.php. I also tried just editing with text and I get the same result.

Can you have a map "active" whilst editing the conf? I've tried de-activating a map before editing and still have this same problem.

I just made another map OK, but if I edit the conf. it will stop.

Any ideas/suggestions?

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[Howie]

Once I edit an existing map instead of the map displaying I merely get "this map has not been created yet" usually it will do with for 5 minutes whilst it is gathering information, but I let it run for 2 hours and still no map.

OK. At this stage, the first thing to check is the Cacti log. If weathermap doesn't like your config file for any reason, it'll complain there. At least that way you know what it is that the editor is doing to your files

Here is my config files, can anyone see anything terribly wrong with it or is there a correct way to exit the editor.php. I also tried just editing with text and I get the same result.

Hmm. Then that smells of permission problems. Thinking about it, if you get "This map is not created yet", then it means that there has NEVER been a working map! The problem is not the editor - it sounds like even an unchanged map will do this. Check the log, and the permissions of the output directory.

Can you have a map "active" whilst editing the conf? I've tried de-activating a map before editing and still have this same problem.

Yes you can. There is a fraction of a second while the editor rewrites the config file where there is a risk of a broken map for that poller cycle, but aside from that there's no issue, and the 'broken' map will be rewritten in the next cycle, if it ever happened...

The editor doesn't work like a normal text editor - it reads in the entire map config, makes the same internal model that the regular Weathermap tool does, then makes the change you request, then writes out a fresh config based on it's in-memory knowledge of the map. This is why comments disappear and nodes move around.

[Alchemist]

Thanks Howie, some good suggestions there, I will do a check on my folder permissions, I did disregard them initially as I had working maps, but maybe making the map with the editors "new file" tool creates it with default permissions that arn't right for my setup, will do some chmodding

Another thing I did as a test(just checked the results now) was just some basic modifications to the existing simple.conf file, just 2 nodes to see what was going on and even though I changed it it's still displaying data, so the issue only resides with new files I have created, I'm also leaning towards permissions now...

Anyway, will investigate when I get back in to work tomorrow.

Hope it's not permissions as I did see those topics covered alot on here...

[Howie]

Hope it's not permissions as I did see those topics covered alot on here...

The main thing is, always check the logs. Especially in DEBUG mode, Weathermap will give you a lot of clues about what is going on. There are only a handful of situations where it won't.

[Alchemist]

Hi Guys,

Well, have progressed a little...

I might also add that I am running CactiEZ Beta 2

I found in another thread that the php.ini for the ISO is set to 8MB only, reading the experience of another CactiEZ user I adjusted the setting to 32MB and all my existing graphs have come good.

http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=17056

Thanks to Howie for this awesome plugin