Non-SNMP Host monitoring

[mjaz]

I'm trying to monitor the Up/Down status of a host that does not support SNMP. I've added the device and removed the SNMP Community name in the device options (it now displays 'SNMP not in use' at the top of the device page). I've also set 'Downed Host Detection' to 'Ping and SNMP' and 'Ping Type' to 'UDP'. The Problem is that cacti will only ever report the host status as Unknown (cacti reports the status ofmy snmp enabled hosts fine). I think i've tried every combination of 'Downed Host Detection' and 'Ping Type' all with the same results.

I'm running cacti 0.8.6i on WinXP with PHP 5.1.6 and Apache 2.0.59.

Any help is greatly appreciated,

Mark

[TheWitness]

With cmd.php you actually have to create a graph first. So, once you create a graph, the Up/Down will start to work. I suggest you use something like the Advanced Ping Template, and if UNIX/Linux, use UDP or TCP pings.

TheWitness

[mjaz]

Excellent! Thanks for the tip. I've added the advanced Ping template to my cacti install and a graph to each of my non-snmp devices and everything works fine.

Mark