Advanced Ping Template for Cacti 0.8.6f

[TheWitness]

A new version of the Advanced Ping Template has been released. Please refer to the post below for additional information.

TheWitness

http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=10049

[leskent]

In doing troubleshooting on the 100% loss problem, I discovered the problem.

With adding various debugging, I was finding something strange with the passing of arguments to the ss_fping function in the file ss_fping.php. The hostname was correct, but the ping_sweeps was actually the ping_type argument. I therefore modified the line:

function ss_fping($hostname, $ping_sweeps=6, $ping_type="ICMP", $port=80) {

to be:

function ss_fping($hostname, $filler, $ping_sweeps=6, $ping_type="ICMP", $port=80) {

By adding the filler argument, the rest of the arguments were fine.

All is working great now. I'm not a PHP expert (or even a novice), so I have no idea what the problem is.

I'm running with the following configuration:
- Windows 2003
- PHP Version => 5.1.2
- The Cacti version 1.2.12 of rddtool using cygwin

[leskent]

Actually I retract this fix above by adding the $filler. Turns out I had other debugging stuff still in the file that was overriding these settings. When I cleaned them out it broke again.

Well my fix was to just hard code the values for $ping_sweeps and $ping_type and that was what fixed it for me.
$ping_sweeps=10;
$ping_type="ICMP";

So maybe a PHP expert can figure out the problem better than I can?

Thanks,
Les