Smoke-ping 0.86c

redeye · Post by **redeye** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:28 am

I have an problem with getting this to work

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I placed the script in the scripts dir. I can run it and get:

#./ping-latency.pl xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
min:1.28 avg:4.79 max:30.1 dev:14.41 loss:0

But when I look at the graph it looks like I don't get data :s

Debug says:

RRDTool Says: OK

Doe s anyone have a clue?

Post by **gandalf** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:53 am

redeye,

this graph implementation works kind of other way round than usual. Initially, you will find all graphs totally in red. Wait an hours or so and you should see the real data at the right side of the graph. Have a look at the legend. There you should see the actual data after 5 min. or so.
If the problem persists, please sitch to DEBUG mode and post the findings from cacti.log around the call of ping-latency.pl

Reinhard

redeye · Post by **redeye** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:01 pm

It's running 24 hours now

redeye wrote: Debug says:
RRDTool Says: OK

cacti.log has no entry of ping-latency.pl

TethiS · Post by **TethiS** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 3:41 am

04/20/2005 10:07:44 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[125] CMD: perl /var/www/html/cacti/scripts/ping-latency.pl host01, output: min:0.155 avg:0.176 max:0.191 dev:0.020 loss:0

the above line is NOT followed by a "rrdtool update /path/host01_xxx_.rrd", so is normal the graph stays red all the time.
In Data Input Methods the "Update RRD File" case is checked..

Any clues?

Post by **TheWitness** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 5:47 am

Please verify that your script output is trimmed.

TheWitness

mjaz · Post by **mjaz** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 3:55 am

Is it possible to use this on a win32 server, maybe with a different version of ping than the standard ms one? i hope so, would be really good to be able to graph device response times like this. Anyone any ideas?

Mark

Post by **TheWitness** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 4:20 am

I would think so, different version of ping.pl I'll bet though.

TheWitness

marcofe · Post by **marcofe** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:10 am

hbokh wrote:Merci beaucoup!
I've made the needed translations from French to English.
Here's my translated XML and a screenshot from how it looks after a couple of polls.

hi, thanks for your xmls but i ave a problem for import
I wanted to tell you that I don't succeed in caring your xmls when i selected by the menu import and press save not succes nothing the my cacti version is 86b
txxxxx for you help

predou · Post by **predou** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 9:27 am

you need cacti version 0.86c

boran11 · Post by **boran11** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:43 pm

Hi,

I downloaded the XML & script for smoke ping and it works fine: for hosts with SNMP... but not for remote targets which have no snmp..

I can see the script being called correctly in the cacti log, but no rrd file is generated..

Why is this? (I apologise in advance if this is FAQ, I've not found a comprehensive answer to ping-without-snmp..).

MErci,

Sean

_alex_ · Post by **_alex_** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:32 am

Hi,
I have I think , the same problem as redeye

In cacti.log I have

04/25/2005 06:29:06 PM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[52] CMD: perl /var/www/cacti/scripts/ping-latency.pl XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX, output: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXXmin:2.5 avg:9.5 max:19.2 dev: loss:0

But the rrd is not update and the graph stay completly red.

Is anyone say what could be wrong ?

best regards

Alex

boran11 · Post by **boran11** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:36 am

I don't get any graph at all (as opposed to being red), becuase no rrd file is created. However, as you note, the cacati log shows that the ping latency perl script has been successfully run.

Is your target SNMP enabled?

_alex_ · Post by **_alex_** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:44 am

yes I'm graphing all the interfaces of this cisco routers

boran11 · Post by **boran11** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:24 pm

My problem is probably different to yours as I'm running on Linux (Suse 9.1) and smokeping works fine for me on a target with SNMP access, but not with a target without SNMP.

In my poller cache I can see the script being called:
Data Source: green2 - Smoke Ping
RRD: /opt/cacti-0.8.6c/rra/green2_min_26.rrd
Action: 1, Script: perl /opt/cacti-0.8.6c/scripts/ping-latency.pl 10.0.0.2

but the rrd file is never created for "green2"

In the cacti logs for the smokeping that works, I see:
04/25/2005 11:20:10 PM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[1] CMD: perl /opt/cacti-0.8.6c/scripts/ping-latency.pl 172.17.17.10, output: min:0.274 avg:0.302 max:0.338 dev:0.023 loss:0

I see no trace of the system "green2" in the cacti logs, but I do see two of these:
04/25/2005 11:20:14 PM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[4] SNMP: Host did not respond to SNMP

==> Does Cacti ALWAYS require targets to be reached by SNMP?
Is there a way of only working on ICMP?

boran11 · Post by **boran11** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:41 am

Yes, ping needs SUID to execute as root and connect to the network device..

For me with my target without SNMP, the fix was to define a BLANK SNMP community strings.

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