IMPORTANT: Cacti 0.8.6j Ping Issues

[TheWitness]

All,

If you are running a version of PHP less than 5.0, you should seriously consider applying the folloing patch to "/lib/ping.php". It correct's an issue with the new version of ping that was implemented for SNMP. If you are running Cactid, you will not be impacted by this change.

TheWitness

[reboot]

Is it possible to put this patch at the official patches page of the cacti homepage?

[TheWitness]

Sent a note to Ian as he publishes the patches.

TheWitness

[reboot]

I believe it's allready there.

Thanks!

[TheWitness]

Right, he confirmed late last night via e-mail that he had posted my package.

TheWitness

[project_jupiter]

I'm using 0.8.6i and plugins are there. Tried to upgrade to 0.8.6j and plugins directive in include/config.php is missing. Added manually but plugins are still not recognized. Why? Previous upgrade went very smooth.

[TheWitness]

When you have the plugin architecture installed, you have to be much more careful about upgrading as the default config.php does not include any references to the plugins. You need the Plugin Architecture.

TheWitness

[duckhead]

I upgraded to 0.8.6j, and applied the ping patch, since I'm running PHP 4. My cacti.log was littered with the error:

"WARNING: sockets support not enabled in PHP,falling back to SNMP ping"

So, I looked at the code for ping.php, and saw this block:

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                if (!function_exists("socket_create")) {
                        $avail_method = AVAIL_SNMP;
                        cacti_log("WARNING: sockets support not enabled in PHP,falling back to SNMP ping");
                }

So, i figured I should change my ping type to SNMP. I did that, and still got the error message. In looking at it further, I did not see any usefulness to reporting this error message if we were doing SNMP pings already. So, I changed it to this:

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                if ($avail_method != AVAIL_SNMP && !function_exists("socket_create")) {
                        $avail_method = AVAIL_SNMP;
                        cacti_log("WARNING: sockets support not enabled in PHP,falling back to SNMP ping");
                }

Works much more quietly now. And yeah, I know I should rebuild PHP with sockets support. It's on my list with an infinite number of other things.

[TheWitness]

Lol, I hope you get to it soon. Many other plugins will be using the sockets module as we move forward.

TheWitness

[Arka]

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                if ($avail_method != AVAIL_SNMP && !function_exists("socket_create")) {
                        $avail_method = AVAIL_SNMP;
                        cacti_log("WARNING: sockets support not enabled in PHP,falling back to SNMP ping");
                }

Works much more quietly now. And yeah, I know I should rebuild PHP with sockets support. It's on my list with an infinite number of other things.

Thanks for this btw. (and yes, I also have to rebuild my PHP) ^^