Advanced Ping Template for Cacti 0.8.6f

[JJX]

What should i choose as Data Source ??

in the list i get only options for the traffic ...

[JJX]

for debian funs:
apt-get install php-net-socket
using a sid/unstable repository

What should i choose as Data Source ??

in the list i get only options for the traffic ...

i had to create the graph from "new graph first" and after configure from "graph management" (and not directly from "graph management")

[m_o_d]

In debian (sarge) works great

Thenks

[li0n]

Hi !

I've installed your template and it's rox !

But I encountered a strange behavior when i try to add this graph item: "Graph Last Updated: |date_time|" at the end of your graph template => all the graphs that implement the ping template become "lightblue" like the attached screenshot.

If i remove the item, the graph still have this lightblue background.

In order to get everything OK, i need to delete the graph template, data template, all datasources and have to reinstall the complete template

Do you have any clue for that ?


thx !

System:
cacti 0.86g + patches
poller cmd.php
0.000 loss data in all datasources

Edit :
I think i've found the problem: when i add a graph item, i think cacti recalculated badly the index for the associated graph item.

so before i got in debug graph:
DEF:d="/opt/lampp/htdocs/cacti/rra/praswcol01_min_409.rrd":loss:AVERAGE
DEF:e="/opt/lampp/htdocs/cacti/rra/praswcol01_min_409.rrd":dev:AVERAGE
after
DEF:d="/opt/lampp/htdocs/cacti/rra/praswcol01_min_409.rrd":dev:AVERAGE
DEF:e="/opt/lampp/htdocs/cacti/rra/praswcol01_min_409.rrd":loss:AVERAGE

same with before:
DEF:bb="/opt/lampp/htdocs/cacti/rra/praswcol01_min_409.rrd":loss:AVERAGE
DEF:bc="/opt/lampp/htdocs/cacti/rra/praswcol01_min_409.rrd":avg:AVERAGE
and after:
DEF:bb="/opt/lampp/htdocs/cacti/rra/praswcol01_min_409.rrd":avg:AVERAGE
DEF:bc="/opt/lampp/htdocs/cacti/rra/praswcol01_min_409.rrd":max:AVERAGE

i don't know why, but after reassigning manually all "Associated graph items", everything is fine

attached debug graph before and after.

[entr0py]

Feel quite silly asking this...

I am trying to graph the latency/response times for a VIP. Trouble is I am doing this from the outside rather then from the inside of the mgmt lan. As such I do not have/want access to snmp while I am on the outside of the intrastructure.

This is causing the rrd's not to be generated for the VIP, an snmp error is shown when I view the device and the status of the device is constantly down.

Is there a way to get cacti to graph the device, in my case the latency of a VIP without utilizing snmp or graphing any other metrics?

[the_sphynx_2k5]

I get the following error when I attempt to run ss_fping.php. Any ideas?

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Gentoo script_server # php ss_fping.php <<IP Address>>

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class:  net_ping in /var/www/dharmacon.com/cacti/resource/script_server/ss_fping.php on line 22

[TheWitness]

what version of PHP?

TheWitness

[the_sphynx_2k5]

Here is my version number:

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Gentoo# equery list php
[ Searching for package 'php' in all categories among: ]
 * installed packages
[I--] [  ] dev-php/php-4.4.0-r1 (0)
Gentoo#

[TheWitness]

That looks good. It looks like ss_fping.php can not find <path_cacti>/lib/ping.php. Where do you have ss_fping.php installed?

TheWitness

[the_sphynx_2k5]

I have ss_fping.php in my scripts subdirectory of cacti. Thanks for the help.

[TheWitness]

goto the lib directory and run "php -l ping.php"

TheWitness

[the_sphynx_2k5]

But I am running 0.8.6g. Am I still going to have to apply the patches?

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[ Searching for package 'cacti' in all categories among: ]
 * installed packages
[I--] [  ] net-analyzer/cacti-cactid-0.8.6e (0)
[I--] [  ] net-analyzer/cacti-0.8.6g (0.8.6g)

[the_sphynx_2k5]

"php -l ping.php" returns no syntax errors.

[TheWitness]

ok. then you need to run:

php <path_cacti>/scripts/ss_fping.php www.google.com 20

TheWitness

[the_sphynx_2k5]

That seems to work. thanks